The brahmanas[1]<\/a> know all the Vedas and are engaged in the following six duties:<\/p>\n performing sacrifices,<\/p>\n engaging others in performing sacrifices,<\/p>\n studying,<\/p>\n teaching,<\/p>\n giving charity and<\/p>\n accepting charity.<\/p>\n Craftsmen, who maintain their lives by various kinds of trades and crafts, are known as bahisthas.<\/p>\n The aforementioned groups are further divided into eight:<\/p>\n These five groups within Sri Krishna\u2019s family (vaisyas, abhiras, gurjaras, vipras and bahisthas) are further divided into eight.<\/p>\n They are:<\/p>\n honourable elders,<\/p>\n brothers-and-sisters and so forth,<\/p>\n messengers,<\/p>\n servants,<\/p>\n craftsmen,<\/p>\n maidservants,<\/p>\n friends of the same age and<\/p>\n beloveds.<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Also known as vipras<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is a section of the book \u201cRadha Krishna Ganoddesa Dipika\u201d, en English.<\/span><\/p>\n To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0click above<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2. The priestly class The brahmanas[1] know all the Vedas and are engaged in the following six duties: performing sacrifices, engaging others in performing sacrifices, studying, teaching, giving charity and accepting charity. 3. Craftsmen Craftsmen, who … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":42256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-43430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-radha-krishna-ganoddesa-dipika-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-03 07:28:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3. Craftsmen<\/h3>\n