according to the purusha sukta, varnas was made from the mouth of the cosmic man.
according to the purusha sukta, varnas was made from the mouth of the cosmic man.
according to the purusha sukta what was made from the mouth of the cosmic man?
varnas
the hymn "purusha sukta" to the "rigveda" describes the symbolic creation of the four varna-s through cosmic sacrifice (yajña). some scholars consider the "purusha sukta" to be a late interpolation into the "rigveda" based on the neological character of the composition, as compared to the more archaic style of the vedic literature. since not all indians were fully regulated under the varna in the vedic society, the "purusha sukta" was supposedly composed in order to secure vedic sanction for the heredity caste scheme. an alternate explanation is that the word 'shudra' does not occur anywhere else in the "rig-veda" except the "purusha sukta", leading some scholars to believe the "purusha sukta" was a composition of the later rig-vedic period itself to denote, legitimise and sanctify an oppressive and exploitative class structure that had already come into existence then.
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the purusha sukta gives a description of the spiritual unity of the universe. it presents the nature of purusha, or the cosmic being, as both immanent in the manifested world and yet transcendent to it. from this being, the sukta holds, the original creative will (identified with viswakarma, hiranyagarbha or prajapati) proceeds which causes the projection of the universe in space and time. the purusha sukta, in the seventh verse, hints at the organic connectedness of the various classes of society.









































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