Vaishya (Sanskrit: वैश्य, vaiśya) is one of the four varnas of the Vedic Hindu social order in India. Vaishyas are classed third in the order of Varna...

Arya Vaisya may refer to: Arya Vaishya or Komati, a caste in Andhra Pradesh, India Moothan, a caste of traders in Kerala, India Arya (disambiguation) Vaishya...

states that Shiva gave them the name Go-mati ("cow-minded"). The term "Vaisya" has been used to refer to Komatis. The term "Komati" also has a denotation...

Mahuri is a Hindu caste jāti. Mahuri are reported to have migrated from the city of Mathura and surrounding rural locations to the then sub of Bengal under...

vocations like agriculture which maintain the livelihood of the public. The Vaiśya class, born from the same part of the body, carries out trades and agriculture...

a good birth accordingly. They are born as a brāhmin, a kṣatriya, or a vaiśya. But those who did bad work in this world [in their past life] attain a...

Ramanuja. Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-19-569161-0. The Chetti, Vaisya, or merchant caste Population Review. Indian Institute for Population Studies...

to the vaisya caste. According to Tripathi, the suffix ' bhūti ' additionally indicates that Pushyabhuti, the founder of the family was a vaisya Hans Bakker...

(brahmanas—priests, teachers); kshatriyas (ksatriyas—administrators, rulers); vaishyas (vaisyas—farmers, bankers, business people); and shudras(laborers, artisans) Richard...

eleventh century (Alberuni), and had become peasants par excellence (of vaisya status) by the seventeenth century (Dabistani-i Mazahib). The shift to peasant...