Quotes About Varna

According to the code of dharma, women had only one duty: obey the father when unmarried, the husband when married and the son when widowed. For men, duty was determined by varna, station in society, and ashrama, the stage in life.

After 350 years the defeat at Varna extinguished the appetite in the West for crusading; never again would Christendom unite to try to drive the Muslims out of Europe.

Nowadays marriages across the lines of varna and zat are permissible but traditions that are probably 2,000 years old are not quickly rejected. (Caste discrimination in India is now illegal but it still exists, as does illegal discrimination of various kinds in Britain and elsewhere.)

His work paid off, and he got her a contract to star in a revue at the Casino de Paris, the most respectable of the city's music halls in the 1930s. Henri Varna ran the club, which emphasized

Varna hired Joséphine to star in the 1930–31 show called Paris qui Remue, or Swinging Paris, and he planned to alternate the years in which Mistinguett and Joséphine starred. Mistinguett objected strongly to the shared show. She also complained about the director's purchase