varna

IPA: vˈɑrnʌ

(Hinduism) any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes
A city in northeastern Bulgaria.
Alternative letter-case form of varna [(Hinduism) any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes]

Examples of "varna" in Sentences

The Sanskrit word for caste, varna, also means color.
The confusion between ‘jati’ and ‘varna’ when the caste system is described.
Adultery means production of unwanted children known as varna-sankara, who disturb the world.
The original Hindu word for caste, varna, literally meant “color,” and caste has functioned in India historically as a kind of “apartheid.”
It is evident; therefore, that Sanskritisation reinforces and consolidates the ‘immutable varna hierarchy’ rather than dislodges it or modify it.
The "Verenna" part, while clearly derived first and foremost from the old Sanskrit root varna which in the Rig Veda means "one who claims to be NT Wrong deceitfully".
The ancient racial division on the basis of varna or color was basically such a system of aesthetics that crystallized into a rigid caste system based on preferred professions.
Astrology, yogic ideas of prana and kundalini and even the ideas of reincarnation, karma and varna (that is, caste order) are justified in the language of modern physics and evolutionary biology.
Forty verses of Guhyasamaja tantra is written in a very mystical and profound language; its each verse is formed by taking one varna of evam maya srutam thus interpreting the real intent of the secret verse.