The 'group of four': the four aims of human life, dharma, artha, kama and moksha. It is the classical fourfold scheme, formed by adding moksha (liberation) to the older worldly trivarga of three.

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  Once moksha was added, the older "group of three", the trivarga , became the classical "group of four", the chaturvarga .

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