"This entire (universe) has been created by Brahma. Men say that the Vaishya class was produced from rig verses. They say that the Yajur Veda is the womb from which the Kshattriya was born. The Sama Veda is the source from which the Brahmins sprang. This word the ancients declared to the ancients."
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III. 12.9. 2. — in Ambedkar, B. R. 1946. Who Were the Sudras?
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