Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s4.32

c6.s4.32

As out of the one letter (अ), came out the three Vedas, the Rig, Yajus and Sāman, the three varṇas, Kṣatriyas, Vaiśyas and Śudras came out of the one Brahmaṇa. For as the commentator puts it ब्रह्मैव ब्राह्मणः जातः 1; the creator himself became the Brahmaṇa. Out of him then sprang the other three who by dharma (ऋजवः by meaning साधवः), and by the tie of relationship (ज्ञातिवर्णाः), are related to the Brahmaṇa,² but with a change of form or nature so as to prevent monopolism or rivalry, the inevitable concomitance of modern individualistic organization, thus ultimately ensuring an orderly progress. In this one śloka one can read the various aspects of the theory of social organism, the correlation of the structure, and the functions of various organs, or limbs of the society.³