(Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity

(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)

a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils

(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)

a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils