jati
जाति jāti'Birth-group'; the thousands of endogamous communities that make up caste as actually lived, distinct from the textual fourfold varna.
Where this term appears
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
The second is jati : the thousands of actual birth-groups, tied to occupation and region, into which Indians are in fact born, marry, and live.
- What is a gotra? Essentials
A gotra is a Hindu patrilineal clan: a line of descent traced, through fathers, back to one of a small set of ancient sages (rishis). To share a gotra is to claim a…
- What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials
The tradition's social texts also describe varna , a fourfold ordering of society, and from it grew the lived system of jati , the thousands of birth-communities that make up what is called caste.
- What is Nyaya? Philosophy
…ames the chala , the quibbles that twist an opponent's words, and the jati , the futile rejoinders that answer a real argument with a false parity, and here the tradition sets a trap for the unwary reader, for …
- Does karma justify caste? Treatise
…nction the sources themselves make: the distinction between varna and jati .
- The four movements Treatise
…the root of affliction remains, the deposit ripens into three things: jati , the birth or species one takes; ayus , the length of the life; and bhoga , the experiences of pleasure and pain that fill it.
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
…ha activities from the twelfth by various people including low-ranked jatis , the birth-groups of the caste order.