Varṇa: The Four-Fold Order
Varṇa: The Four-Fold Order
Thirty lessons have described what Hindus hold, whom they address and what they do. Four times along the way the course has stopped at the same locked door — Lesson 3 on who was let into the chain of transmission, Lesson 13 on varṇa as a contested question, Lesson 18 on who the āśrama scheme is addressed to, Lesson 30 on temple entry — and four times it has said the question would be taken up later.
This is later.
The lexicon gives varṇa a long entry, and the order matters.
Month 1
Varṇa: The Four-Fold Order
Month 2 · Lesson 31. Lesson 30 ended on a question it did not answer: who was allowed in, and on what grounds. The scheme behind that question is stated once in the Ṛgveda — in four lines, as the answer to a riddle.
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