| Vedic civilization is based on four varnas, but there are people who do not fit within these four. |
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| Strictly speaking, class and caste are different social institutions, though castes are often assumed to fit into the four varnas. |
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| Traditionally, there were four main varnas, plus one group of outsiders. |
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| Hinduism recognises four varnas based on occupation and ancestry. |
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| In the primitive Hinduism came to constitute another class of people who do not have any position in one from these four varnas, and which consequently, was associated work more degrading. |
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| While the jati system shares many similarities with the varna system, the jatis are not clear subset of varnas. |
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| It became increasingly agricultural and was socially organised around the hierarchy of the four varnas, or social classes. |
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| Hindu society has been categorised into four classes, called varnas. |
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| Scholars like Adi Sankara affirm that not only is Brahman beyond all varnas, the man who is identified with Him also transcends the distinctions and limitations of caste. |
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| The four distinct Varnas or castes that are mutually exclusive, hereditary, endogamous, and occupation-specific are the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras. |
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