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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Curse of Caste</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They came on bullock-carts<br>loaded with gods<br> Indra<br> Agni<br> Varuna<br> Rudra<br>traversed sinuous mountain ranges<br> rivers<br>gurgling outlandish tongues<br>their children caged as poultry<br>their priests chanting weird mantras<br> spells<br> charms<br> curses<br>  hymns<br>drank the soma juice<br>choking with the sacrificial bleating<br>of rams</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Agreed, all societies structure themselves<br> Out of scant need to function sans bother<br>Just as individuals must come together<br> In order better to protect themselves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All men are born equal, so say the Wise<br> But the Elders do not know how to stem<br>Rishis who would seek to mock them<br> By claiming they were twice-born to rise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above all mankind for wasn't it the decreed omen<br> For the Primaeval Being that the self-chosen few<br>Should forever speak for the Brahman in lieu<br> Of Purusha's helpless eyes, brain, heart and abdomen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The only difference between the Brahmin<br> And the rest of the menial human race<br>Is that they were born with Brahma's grace<br> So that they could spurn the rest as vermin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet India's underside boasts of invisible millions<br> Who have no place in sacred Hymns of Man<br>They weren't created by Rig-Veda: only as Harijan<br> May they hang out in limbo as Gandhi's minions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Resources</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roughly, the Hindu caste system is broadly divided into four sacrosanct strata; yet there are literally tens of sub-castes in each category: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">1.	Brahmin (the priesthood caste, supposedly on top of the social hierarchy) , followed by 2.	Kshatriya (the princely hereditary and/or ruling warrior caste): <br>3.	Vashya (the commercial trading, professional and land-owning agricultural castes): <br>4.	Sudra (the menial serving and peasant castes) , <br>followed by the Out-caste: <br>5.	The Untouchable or scavenging caste (which has not found authority in the above Vedic hymn.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">« brahmano ‘sya mukham asid, <br>bahu rajaniah krtah; <br>uru tad asya yad vaisya; <br>padbhyam sudro ajayata. »</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rigveda, X,90,12 (sans signes diacritiques) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'His mouth was the Brahman, his two arms were made the warrior, <br>his two thighs the Vaisya; from his two feet the Sudra was born.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Transl. & translit. by Arthur A. MacDonnell (1854 - 1930) ,1917</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(© T. Wignesan - Paris,1998 - from the sequence/collection: 'Words for a Lost Sub-Continent',1999.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q>
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They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
 Indra
 Agni
 Varuna
 Rudra
traversed sinuous mountain ranges
 rivers
gurgling outlandish tongues
their children caged as poultry
their priests chanting weird mantras
 spells
 charms
 curses
  hymns
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