shudra
शूद्र shudraThe fourth of the four varnas in the classical social scheme, charged in the law-books with serving the other three; the texts' treatment of the shudra is among their most contested matter.
Where this term appears
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
Vaishyas are the producers, farmers, herders, and traders. Shudras are those who serve and labour.
- The Bhakti Movement History
Kabir was a weaver from a Muslim family. Tukaram was a poor shudra.
- The Four Ashramas: the stages of life Essentials
Shudras, the fourth class, were excluded from Vedic initiation altogether and so from the scheme as the law books drew it.
- The Four Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali Essentials
He came up again. "Well done, well done, Shudra.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
Shudras were excluded from the initiation and therefore from the mantra.
- The Law of Manu Treatise
The other wound The book's treatment of the shudra , the lowest of the four varnas , and of those below the varna order entirely, is the second contested core, and it is the one that brought the fire to Mahad.
- The People's Veda Treatise
…red initiation, and did not extend that initiation to women or to the shudras , the laboring class.
- The Trouble With Dharma Treatise
In the same late book he beheads Shambuka, a shudra performing the austerities said in that age to be forbidden to his class.