Linked from

The 8 pages that link to Purusha Sukta, each with the reason it gives.

• RigvedaBroader topic: It links cosmic creation with a description of social orders.

• Caste system in IndiaRelated: Its creation image became a prominent textual account of varna's origins.

• BrahmanaCompared with: Its sacrificial creation imagery anticipates themes elaborated in Brahmana prose.

• Hindu cosmologyBroader topic: It explains cosmic and social order through the dismemberment of a primordial being.

• CasteBroader topic: This hymn became a prominent textual source for the varna hierarchy.

• KshatriyaBroader topic: It assigns Kshatriyas an origin in Purusha’s arms.

• ShudraBroader topic: Its account of the four varnas associates Shudras with the cosmic being’s feet.

• VaishyaRelated: Its imagery supplies an influential account of the varnas’ origins.