vaishya

one of the four divisions of the Hindu varna system
Thing varna Q185970
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vaishya

Summary

vaishya is a varna[1]. vaishya draws 340 Wikipedia views per month (varna category, ranking #3 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • vaishya's instance of is recorded as varna[3].
  • vaishya's Commons category is recorded as Vaishya[4].
  • vaishya's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01n3zc[5].
  • vaishya's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Vaishya community[6].
  • vaishya's facet of is recorded as caste system in India[7].
  • vaishya's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0149733[8].
  • vaishya's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • vaishya's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • vaishya's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11].
  • vaishya's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • vaishya's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Vaishya[13].
  • vaishya's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'sa', 'text': 'वैश्य'}[14].
  • vaishya's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1894507[15].
  • vaishya's next lower rank is recorded as shudra[16].
  • vaishya's next higher rank is recorded as kshatriya[17].
  • vaishya's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3993459[18].
  • vaishya's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as vaisijai[19].
  • vaishya's Colon Classification is recorded as Y5925[20].
  • vaishya's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as vaisya[21].

Why It Matters

vaishya draws 340 Wikipedia views per month (varna category, ranking #3 of 3).[2] vaishya has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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