Mahabharata And The Indian Caste System
The Indian epic Mahabharata gives glimpses of caste system prevailed in ancient India. Apart from the four basic orders (varnas or castes) Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra the epic mentions several other castes that sprang from their intermixing.
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