Question

1. Answer these questions.
a. What do you understand by 'brahmanical religion?
b. What are the Upanishads?
c Name two new religious orders which did not support the varna system.
d. Why were the Brahmins considered to be the privileged class in the society
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Explanation:

1. he religious and social system of the Brahmans and orthodox Hindus, characterized by the caste system and diversified pantheism. the Hinduism of the Vedas, Brahmanas, and Upanishads
2. he Upanishads are late Vedic Sanskrit texts of religious teaching and ideas still revered in Hinduism.They are the most recent part of the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, the Vedas, that deal with meditation, philosophy, and ontological knowledge; other parts of the Vedas deal with mantras, benedictions, rituals, ceremonies, and sacrifices.
3. Varṇa  a Sanskrit word with several meanings including type, order, colour, or class, was used to refer to social classes in Hindu texts like the Manusmriti.These and other Hindu texts classified the society in principle into four varnas

1. Shudras: laborers and service providers.
2. Vaishyas: agriculturalists and merchants.[6]
3. Kshatriyas: rulers, warriors and administrators.
4. Brahmins: priests, scholars and teachers.

 

    4.Brahman, also spelled Brahmin, Sanskrit Brāhmaṇa (“Possessor of Brahma”), highest ranking of the four varnas, or social classes, in Hindu India. The elevated position of the Brahmans goes back to the late Vedic period, when the Indo-European-speaking settlers in northern India were already divided into Brahmans (or priests), warriors (of the Kshatriya class), traders (of the Vaishya class), and labourers (of the Shudra class). Since then there has been no fundamental change in their relative position, and the Brahmans still enjoy great prestige and many advantages, though their claim to tangible privileges is no longer officially admitted. The basis of the age-old veneration of Brahmans is the belief that they are inherently of greater ritual purity than members of other castes and that they alone are capable of performing certain vital religious tasks. The study and recitation of the sacred scriptures was traditionally reserved for this spiritual elite, and for centuries all Indian scholarship was in their hands.