Rig veda say that the society was divided in five categories . brahman ,kshatriya,...., Nisad.what is Nishad?

Question

Brahman, kshatriya,vaishya,sudra are known to me . what is Nishad.

Rig veda -mandal 4

Answer 1

May be at the tiome of the Rig veda the divison of labour had to be made into five categories and subequently it was restricted to four. These should have been done in accordance with the needs of the time .In those days people had a jittu (.lofty tuft )and a loin cloth and a towell only and were not wearing pants and shirts .That does not mean that they should be wearing the same dress only now .Many had been wearing only a small piece of long piece clothe ( a rag)known as "kowbeanum that coverd their genitals only .We can not imagine it now .So the habbits and the requirements of the soceity changes with the time and have been chaning .Even the whites had been without clothes and had been wearing only animal hides /raw skins without proper processing .Now they claim to be more advanced and civilized and make fun of us who had beencweaing clothes whencthey had been wearing nothing .Some of us also forget the facts and make fun of oursleves in comparison to twest and we haveals taken to the culture of the west .We always have a fancy for the habbits of others whatever they are .Allt hepeople of other countries don't feel shy to apopear in thier customery country dress while in the west .We the great Indians apes are the only people in the world who are ashamed our our own culture and dress .wonderful character,.while theshite man and women are able go about in our streets here in shorts and banians , we are unable to go in their streets in our dhothy and shirt .We demean ourselves as we have been slaves for centuries .?Though the Isrelites have also been slaves in Egypt for centuries , they are proud of their civilisation./you see many of them in their dress in the west. we are making fun of our past which is thousands of years old when the other fellows were ignorent of any clothes .In fact many of the European countries came here for clothes and they destroyed our weavers after learning to make clothes .
Indian People themselves take a fancy to make fun of the life styles and the social habits of the Indians some several thousands of years ago when the people of the west they are aping now did not know anythng about clothes and were roaming naked .in the forests .
Our special character is to spit on each other's face .No other commuity in the world does it !.It is exclusively our own.

Answer 2

All I've been able to find so far re your translation of the Rig Veda verse is that it's credited to Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood. So it's very possible that the words were chosen to echo something modern Americans would be familiar with. I'd really like to see other translations, but I'm not even finding a verse number to look it up. Just to clarify - I'm not saying that the Rig Ceda translation is wrong, I'd just like to confirm its accuracy. A lot of conventional Christian translations do strange, misleading things with the Hebrew - finding out more about the Hebrew often changes the meaning. John uses a lot of Gnostic imagery - light, dark, the Word and so on. Gnostics worked with complex systems of emanations (each sect had their own variations) which bridged the vast gap between their supreme, ineffable god and the physical world. 'The Beginning' and 'The Word' were two of those emanations. Logos/The Word was part of the broader philosophical discussions as well. The Stoics saw The Word as a living, reified 'reason' which pervaded and animated the universe. It's possible that Gnostics read their own terminology into the Rig Veda. They certainly did strange things with Jewish texts.

Answer 3

PROGENY OF MIXED ARYAN CASTES



Father Mother Progeny known as Anuloma or Pratiloma

Brahman


Kshatriya


?




Brahman


Vaishya


Ambashta


Anuloma

Brahman


Shudra


Nishad (Parasava)


Anuloma

Kshatriya


Brahman


Suta


Pratiloma

Kshatriya


Vaishya


?




Kshatriya


Shudra


Ugra


Anuloma

Vaishya


Brahman


Vaidehaka


Pratiloma

Vaishya


Kshatriya


Magadha


Pratiloma

Vaishya


Shudra


Karana


Anuloma

Shudra


Brahman


Chandala


Pratiloma

Shudra


Kshatriya


Ksattri


Pratiloma

Shudra


Vaishya


Ayogava


Pratiloma



2. PROGENY OF ARYAN CASTES WITH ANULOMA-PRATILOMA CASTES



Father


Mother


Progeny Known As

1. Brahman


Ugra


Avrita

2. Brahman


Ambashta


Dhigvana

3. Brahman


Nishada


Kukutaka

4. Shudra


Abhira


Abhira





2. PROGENY OF MIXED MARRIAGES BETWEEN ANULOMA AND PRATILOMA CASTES



Father


Mother


Progeny known as

1. Vaideha


Ayogava


Maitreyaka

2. Nishada


Ayogava


Margava (Das)







Kaivarta

3. Nishada


Vaideha


Karavara

4. Vaidehaka


Ambashta


Vena

5. Vaidehaka


Karavara


Andhra

6. Vaidehaka


Nishada


Meda

7. Chandala


Vaideha


Pandusopaka

8. Nishada


Vaideha


Ahindaka

9. Chandala


Pukkassa


Sopaka

10. Chandala


Nishada


Antyavasin

11. Kshattari


Ugra


Swapaka

Answer 4

Hello dear friend if you don't mind try to understand your self and read again about Vedas :

who says this that "Rigveda say so?"

The categories were made by Maharishi Manu and he was also king of earth at that time so he implemented this

there is no any sign in Vedas which say that the human being have different categories

However if you have to know please watch once the great book Satyarth Prakash written by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati the founder of Arya Samaj

you may also visit WWW.aryasamajjamnager.com