kshutriya

Updated: May 24, 2025

All this time the Purbhoo was in the land, but insignificant. He had no sacred calling. Tradition assigned him a hybrid origin. He could not presume to be a warrior, because his mother was a shoodra, nor could he condescend to be a farmer, for his father was a kshutriya. So the gods had given him the pen, and he was a writer not a secretary, but a humble quill-driver.

Edward Hamilton Aitken - Concerning Animals and Other Matters