Scroll article by Wendy Doninger about Casteism in Horses!

[Sunil Nakum]

This is second article this week that raises the concern about Cast System of India. I've came across similar one few days back, don't recall the source.

‘The Sanskrit texts divided horses into castes, just as they divided people’: Wendy Doniger

https://scroll.in/article/1002828/the-sanskrit-texts-divided-horses-into-castes-just-as-they-divided-people-wendy-doniger 

[Kushagra Aniket]

चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागशः”

चत्वार एव वर्णा यस्मिन् तज्जगदिदं सृष्टं भगवतेत्यर्थः। तस्मात्सर्वमिदं चराचरं चतुर्वर्णमयं गुणकर्मानुसारतः। ज्योतिषे ग्रहाणामपि गुणानुसारेण वर्णविभागः। देवानामपि तद्विभागो दृश्यते। न तत्राश्चर्यम्।

( मम स्वतन्त्रविचारोयं। न भाष्यात्।)

Kushagra Aniket

Economist and Management Consultant

Columbia University'21

Cornell University'15

New York, NY, U.S.A.

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[Shankar Rajaraman]

The शार्ङ्गधरपद्धति also classifies dogs into 4 वर्णs - श्वेता द्विजाः क्षत्रियकाश्च रक्ताः पीताश्च वैश्या असिताश्च शूद्राः. Just a convenient way of translation, I suppose.  

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[Shankar Rajaraman]

Please read as "convenient way of classification". Sorry for the typo

Regards

Shankar Rajaraman

[Nagaraj Paturi]

First demonize a system like varna or caste system. Then show every application of it as demonical. That is the game here. 

Neither the varna nor the caste system are exclusionist, discriminatory or hierarchical. They are as much taxonomical and group forming as any contemporary social taxonomical systems or social grouping systems. 

Hierarchical way of viewing social groups or their members exists in contemporary social groups too. 

Certain social groups whether in ancient India or in the contemporary world are essentially hierarchical. Group of Sainyaadhyakshas and group of Sainikas are hierarchically formed groups. 

Vernas and castes are not like that. 

But repeated talk of these systems as bad makes the audience see their application to other entities too as bad. 

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Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Director, Indic Academy

BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Maharashtra

BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru.

Member, Advisory Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam, Bengaluru

BoS Rashtram School of Public Leadership

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Studies in Public Leadership

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies, 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education, 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.