Definitions
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- noun a Hindu of the lowest caste, that of the workers.
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- noun a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste
- noun the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status
Etymologies
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Examples
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The name Shudra symbolises a man who has no margin round him beyond his bare utility.
Creative Unity Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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G.K. Govinda Rao and "Shudra" Srinivas, were upset, and recalled the beautiful melodies that Pandit
unknown title 2009
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Panini, the famous grammarian assigned to the fourth century B.C.E., if not earlier, attests to Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra republics and Alexander had to defeat both a Brahmana and a Shudra republic in the course of his conquest.
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011
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Panini, the famous grammarian assigned to the fourth century B.C.E., if not earlier, attests to Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra republics and Alexander had to defeat both a Brahmana and a Shudra republic in the course of his conquest.
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011
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“In the high and the low, in the Brahmin and the Shudra, in the saint and the sinner, there is only one Narayan, one God and he is the soul of all men.”
Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The first is the Shudra consciousness which is pretty much limited to himself and his immediate family and survival.
Archive 2009-04-10 2009
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The first is the Shudra consciousness which is pretty much limited to himself and his immediate family and survival.
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“In the high and the low, in the Brahmin and the Shudra, in the saint and the sinner, there is only one Narayan, one God and he is the soul of all men.”
It is through the right of free speech that ideas are expanded and developed Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The Brahmin, the Vaishya, and the Shudra characteristics are now well entrenched within the Savitri Era Religion, while the Kshatriya quality has suffered neglect.
Savitri Era Religion needs to develop political muscle Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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The Brahmin, the Vaishya, and the Shudra characteristics are now well entrenched within the Savitri Era Religion, while the Kshatriya quality has suffered neglect.
Archive 2008-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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