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Vaisyas, or merchants and farmers; and the Sudras, or peasants and laborers.

homes and spent the rest of their lives as ascetics, living apart from the villages in rude huts, or under the shelter of trees, eating only the simplest kinds of food, which they obtained by begging, and subjecting themselves to extraordinary fasts and mortifications.

and modifications, in the interests now of Vishnuism now of Sivaism, till it assumed its final shape in the sixth century of the Christian Era.

Krishna to be the superior personal all-god who, by the bestowal of special grace helps on his votaries to the attainment of eternal bliss.

Aryan conquerors of northern India, and came, with the spread of their dominion, to be extended over the whole country, maintaining itself, not without profound modifications, down to the present day.

years for the Kshatriya and the Vaisya respectively.

and last of all, the servile class of conquered natives (Sudras).

by acts of worship to personal deities who were powerless to secure even for themselves eternal conscious bliss.

all things was not the personal Brahmá, but the formless, characterless, unconscious spirit known at Atman (self), or, more commonly Brahmâ.

(6-7 July 2003) the Organization’s 189th and newest Member State, just over one year after it attained independence (20 May 2002); India, first, from 9 to 11 July 2003, on the occasion of the International Ministerial Conference “Dialogue among Civilizations: Quest for New Perspectives” and, from 9 to 13 November 2003, on the occasion of UNESCO’s Third Meeting of the High-Level Group on Education for All hosted in New Delhi; Bangladesh (13-17 November 2003) where he signed a Plan of Operations for a Technical and Vocational Training project; Bhutan (17-20 November 2003) – this being the first visit by a Director-General since the country joined the Organization in 1982.

with her machete while supervising the progress of several other female migrant workers.

2011) to foster discussion and collaboration for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems and their continued contribution to global climate regulation, poverty eradication and economic development efforts.

and Tobago, Turkmenistan and Tuvalu.

to strengthen UNESCO’s specialized capacity on climate change, building upon UNESCO’s unique interdisciplinary profile.

(Bolivarian Republic of), introduced a draft resolution entitled “Support to Non-Self-Governing Territories by the specialized agencies and international institutions associated with the United Nations” (E/2009/L.26).