Kshatriya
क्षत्रिय kṣatriyaThe second varna: the class of rulers, warriors, and administrators, charged with protection, justice, and governance. Kings and the epic heroes are Kshatriyas; the Bhagavad Gita is spoken to the Kshatriya Arjuna about his duty in war.
Where this term appears
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
Kshatriyas are the rulers and warriors, charged with protection and justice.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
The king who was not a brahmin Vishvamitra was born a kshatriya.
- Reading the Bhagavad Gita in the modern world Journal
For Arjuna the meaning is specific and uncomfortable. He is a kshatriya , a warrior.
- Śabda eternal Treatise
… and the text enjoining the fire-installation names the Brāhmaṇa, the Kṣatriya and the Vaiśya and does not name the Śūdra; without the installed fires, the acts cannot be performed.
- The Caste And Gender Question Treatise
Twice-born is the technical category for the three upper varnas of the classical caste system: Brahmin , Kshatriya , Vaishya .
- The Sitting-Near Treatise
In the Chandogya and again in the Brihadaranyaka , brahmins come to royal courts and are taught by kshatriyas, by men of the warrior and ruling class, doctrines they admit they had not heard before.