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m The agricultural and mercantile tribe.
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वि. वश ( अप . ). करी रे मला वैश्य ते रामकांता । - राक १ . १४ . [ सं . ]
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वैश्यः [vaiśyḥ] A man of the third tribe, his business being trade and agriculture; a peasant; विशत्याशु पशुभ्यश्च कृष्यादावरुचिः शुचिः । वेदाध्ययनसंपन्नः स वैश्य इति संज्ञितः ॥ Padma Purāṇa. (He is supposed to have sprung from the thighs of Puruṣa;. cf. ऊरू तदस्य यद्वैश्यः [Ṛv.1.9.] )-Comp.
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The Vyshya, the agricultural and mercantile tribe, the third of the four grand divisions of the Hindú people. 2 An individual of it. 3 This word is prefixed to certain words signifying things of which there are varieties, in order to designate the tawny, dusky, or dim variety. And thus it designates the third order, as the word Bráhman designates the first; e.g. Prefixed to हिरा, it expresses A diamond of inferior lustre, not of the first water; to भांग, सबजी, पिंपळ &c., it expresses The yellow or tawny variety.
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