The varna of a person almost entirely depends on training and circumstances. |
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Besides the four main varna, or castes, India has uncounted thousands of sub-castes, few of which census officials will recognise. |
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Initially they came first in the developing varna or caste system that the Aryans used to classify their society between priests, warriors, and free peasants or traders. |
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In an early period, membership in a varna appears to have been based mainly on personal skills rather than birth, status, or wealth. |
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With the exception of the Brahmans and the untouchables the middle level was extremely heterogeneous and often unidentifiable within the four-fold varna. |
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While the jati system shares many similarities with the varna system, the jatis are not clear subset of varnas. |
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The Shudra varna includes a wide spectrum of endogamous status groups with dominant, landowning groups at one end of the scale and near-untouchables at the other. |
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Individual castes, in turn, have sought to raise their social rank by identifying with a particular varna and demanding its privileges of rank and honour. |
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The varna order remains relevant to the understanding of the system of jatis, as it provides the ideological setting for the patterns of interaction that are continuously under negotiation. |
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The Purusa Sukta was contrived by the brahmins at a much later period of time to perpetuate the deranking of the sudra tribe of the ksatriya varna. |
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Some of his mural paintings grace the Synod Palace in Sofia and Varna Cathedral. |
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It was coordinated quadrennially with competitions in Varna, Moscow, and Helsinki. |
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Ironically this process was endorsed and socially legitimised by the Varna system. |
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Both of the beauty queens are from Varna and are madly in love with the natural beauty of the place. |
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I used an agency in Varna to buy a lovely villa five minutes from Sunny Beach. |
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However, others argue that even a short visit to Varna can refute pessimistic appraisals of the situation. |
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Usually, it is the final stop of foreign tourists looking for pretty sights and interesting places to the north of Varna. |
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While Varna describes the four castes, Ashrama discusses the four stages of life of a Hindu. |
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When the campers arrive in Varna and Balchik, they will not just be sunning themselves on the beach. |
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In a village near Varna, the wind felled an unfinished wall, which reduced an old house to debris as it fell, said the Civil Defence. |
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On the return, both Sofia and Plovdiv were fog-bound so we landed at Varna and were unceremoniously bundled on to ancient coaches for the six hour journey to Sofia. |
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But then came the official denial from the Varna metropolitanate that Kiril had resigned from the Synod. |
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Mediterranean Spotted Fever in Varna Region, in Contemporary State of the Rickettsioses in the World and in Bulgaria. |
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The representatives have made clear that NEK should pay the service of supplying electricity which Varna TPS has been assigned. |
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This section has no crash barriers because it is supposed to serve as a reserve landing strip for the nearby Varna Airport. |
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In June 1854, the Allied expeditionary force landed at Varna, a city on the Black Sea's western coast. |
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The oldest processed gold in the world was found in Varna, and the Black Sea was supposedly sailed by the Argonauts. |
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International maritime travel is mainly provided through the Port of Odessa, from where ferries sail regularly to Istanbul, Varna and Haifa. |
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They then moved north to Varna in June, arriving just in time for the Russians to abandon Silistra. |
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The Black Sea city of Varna is to be the European Youth Capital in 2017, a jury panel announced Wednesday evening. |
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Gul, who is on the third day in his stay in Bulgaria, visited Varna and then proceeded to Shumen where many ethnic Turks live. |
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June 23 has been declared a national day of mourning in Bulgaria for the victims of the floods in the Black Sea city of Varna and in Dobrich. |
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Kamen Kukurov delivered the flag of the Slava submarine to the Varna Museum of Military History. |
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The Transport Minister, Alexander Tsvetkov, has announced the beginning of the bus station checks on June 29 in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna. |
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The Aryans who had settled around Varanasi were known as Kassite city was flanked by the rivers Varna and Asia from which the place derives its name. |
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Burgoyne and his team of engineers inspected and surveyed the Dardanelles area in February, being fired on by Russian riflemen when they went to Varna. |
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The Bishop of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Kiril, stunned Tuesday his congregation, arriving to serve the festive Divine Liturgy for St Nicholas Day in a luxury limousine. |
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Later that year, the naval approaches to Varna, Bulgaria were also mined. |
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Canadian HMCS Toronto and Spanish ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbon are to arrive at the Black Sea city of Varna on Friday, the Bulgarian Navy has reported. |
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Ana Strashimirova, Associate Profesor of Private International Law, is currently a regional representative of the CPD in the Black Sea city of Varna. |
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