what is the meaning of varnas
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each of the four Hindu castes, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Sudra.
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The word means "color, tint, dye or pigment" in the Mahabharata. Varna contextually means "colour, race, tribe, species, kind, sort, nature, character, quality, property" of an object or people in some Vedic and medieval texts. Varna refers to four social classes in the Manusmriti.
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Varna is social class/order of society determined by status of your work and not by birth (this is what it meant originally).it was introduced in a hindu text 'manusmriti'. it has 4 distinction:-
1. brahman
2. Kshatriya
3.vaishya
4. shudra
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