The extraction of caste: the moment in the tantric initiation liturgy at which the candidate's birth is removed. The Svacchanda Tantra states at 4.543 that there is one caste alone, Bhairava's, and at 4.544 to 4.545 prescribes expiation and a term in hell for anyone who names an initiate's former birth.

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  The rite of initiation includes a procedure known as jātyuddhāra , the extraction of caste.

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