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རྒྱལ་རིགས། | Glossary of Terms
རྒྱལ་རིགས།
rgyal rigs
kṣatriya
- Term
The ruling caste in the traditional four-caste hierarchy of India, associated with warriors, the aristocracy, and kings.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
One of the four castes, that of warriors and rulers.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The royal, noble, or warrior caste in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The warrior or royal caste in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The ruling caste in the traditional four-caste hierarchy of India, it is associated with warriors, the aristocracy, and kings.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The warrior, ruling, or royal class in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The warrior, or royal, caste in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The warrior caste in the Indian caste system.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The royal, noble, or warrior caste in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The warrior caste (one of the main four Indian castes).
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
One of the four castes of the Indian caste system. It traditionally consisted of rulers and administrators.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
Warrior caste.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The royal or warrior caste in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The ruling caste in the traditional four-caste hierarchy of India, it is associated with warriors, the aristocracy, and kings.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The second highest of the four classes in the Indian caste system, it is associated with warriors, the aristocracy, and kings.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
A member of the ruling caste of classical Indian society.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The royal, noble, or warrior caste in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
One of the four classes (Skt. varṇas) of ancient Indian society, responsible for political and military affairs.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
See “warrior class.”
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The ruling caste in the traditional four-caste hierarchy of India, it is associated with warriors, the aristocracy, and kings.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The royal, noble, or warrior caste in the four-caste system of India.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
A member of the warrior and administrative caste.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་པོའི་རིགས།
- rgyal po’i rigs
- kṣatriya
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The ruling caste in the traditional four-caste hierarchy of India, it is associated with warriors, the aristocracy, and kings.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- རྒྱལ་པོའི་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- rgyal po’i rigs
- kṣatriya
A member of the warrior caste.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Kṣatriya
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
The royal, noble, or warrior class in the caste hierarchy of India.
- Royal caste
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya varṇa
- Royal caste
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriyavarṇa
- Royal family
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
- Royal family
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
- Warrior class
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
One of the four classes of the Indian caste system. Traditionally rulers and administrators belonged to this caste.
- Warrior class
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriya
One of the four social castes of the braminical varṇāśramadharma system.
- Royal class
- རྒྱལ་རིགས།
- rgyal rigs
- kṣatriyavarṇa
Second of the four classes of traditional Indian society.
- Royal descent
- རྒྱལ་པོའི་རིགས།
- rgyal po’i rigs
- kṣatriya
The royal, noble, or warrior caste; one of the four social classes in Indic culture.