Usage examples (5)

• Duryodhana and others, and another, named Yuyutsu, who was born of a vaisya woman.
• The warrior ksatriya class was de­voted to government and defense; the vaisya were farmers and stockbreeders who kept the economy afloat; and the sudras were slaves or...
• These texts include the first religious justifications for a hierarchical structuring of society, asserting the Vedic division of Aryan society into three honorable classes:...
• But what is even more curious is that they also capitalized the expressions for the three other castes, viz. kshatriya ` martial class, 'vaisya ` farmers and merchants,'...