shudra
IPA: ʃˈudrʌ
Root Word: Shudra
noun
- The Hindu varna (caste) composing workers.
- A member of the Hindu varna composing workers.
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Examples of "shudra" in Sentences
- Bhootha culture is essentially a shudra peasant tradition with little room in it for brahmins.
- Unto the vaishya he gave skill, and unto the shudra he gave the duty of serving the three other classes.
- A vaishya without skill is worthy of dispraise, as also a shudra who is bereft of humility (to the other orders).
- Before the Bayars of Barkur came to Durga, Sugethi and Nuji, these forests were peopled by Male Kudiya adivasis and Billava shudra families.
- That is, evolving from a puny being or kshudra/shudra to a purna or integral state of brahmana who encompasses the whole brahmanda or cosmos in his consciousness.
- More than fifty adivasi families, and close to a hundred Billava families and other shudra caste families come with sacrificial chicken to the annual fair at Durga.
- But goddess Durga did not bless Keshava Bayar well, or else the malevolent Bhootas of adivasi and shudra lineage that live in her backyard had neutralised her spell.
- Some brahmins are so disturbed by the malevolence of the adivasi-shudra spirits that they succumb to their power and even sponsor plebeians to sacrifice chicken to appease the devils in their name.
- It was only a foolish curiosity-bitten _shudra_; a wretched member of the lowest and most servile class, who, passing on his way to his miserable hovel, had noticed the gate open at the untoward hour of midnight, and the absence of the ferocious _durwans_.
- He is to be as vast and sincere as true brahmin in his aspiration towards Knowledge, as strong and courageous as kshatriya in his power and leadership, as generous and productive as vaishya in his dealing with life matters and wealth, as laborious and helpful as shudra in his service and help to others.
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