Chapter 5 Section 1: Origins of the Hindu India

The name given by Aryans in ancient India to a group of people in what was believed to be an ideal social structure of four groups.

• o Vedas

• o Vaisyas

• o Vedanta

• o Varnas

Varnas meant ….

• o It referred to the skin color

• o It referred to religious text

• o It referred to one who is willing to listen

• o It meant classification or class

In the Varnas system they were the priest.

• o Kshatriyas

• o Brahmins

• o Vaisya

• o Sudras

In the Varna system they were the artisans, farmers and herdsmen

• o Kshatriyas

• o Brahmins

• o Vaisya

• o Sudra

In the Varna system they were the warrior-administrators.

• o Brahmin

• o Kshatriyas

• o Sudra

• o Vaisya

In the Varna system they were the ones that served the needs of the three above class and there by assured the stability and right functioning of the whole.

• o Vaisya

• o Sudra

• o Brahmin

• o Kshatriyas

It means the rebirth of individual soul in different forms after death.

• o reincarnation

• o karma

• o divine rebirth along with karma

• o dharma reincarnation

It means the force of a person’s actions in this life in determining how the person will be reborn in the next life.

• o karma

• o reincarnation

• o karma leading to a spiritual life

• o dharma reincarnation

According to Hinduism this God is considered the creator

• o Vishnu

• o Brahma

• o Shiva

• o Parvathi

Another word for divine law that rulers karma.

• o dharma

• o Vishnu

• o reincarnation

• o dharma reincarnation