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Hanuman was the child of Añjanā and Kesari. Both Anjana and Kesari belonged to the Vanara clan.

Is the Varna System mentioned in our scriptures applicable only to human beings or is it applicable to Vanaras as well?

In any case, what is the varna (caste) of Hanuman?

Likewise, what is the varna of Jambavan (father of Krishna's third most important wife Jambavathi)?

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  • @moonstar2001 Ha ha, I am in research of a good, perfect, counter-less and valid example for inter-caste marriage in Hindu scriptures, which I didn't find. – hanugm Jul 03 '17 at 15:36
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    :-) "which I didn't find." and what does that tell you. –  Jul 03 '17 at 16:28
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    It only applies to human beings, not other races. – Keshav Srinivasan Jul 03 '17 at 16:43
  • @moonstar2001 It tells that discouraging Inter-caste marriages is invalid. – hanugm Jul 03 '17 at 17:09
  • @KeshavSrinivasan Did Jambavati belongs to human race? – hanugm Jul 03 '17 at 17:10
  • @hanugm No, she didn't. – Keshav Srinivasan Jul 03 '17 at 17:11
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    there is no good, perfect, counter-less and valid valid example for inter-caste marriage and this means that inter-caste is valid and must be encouraged? –  Jul 03 '17 at 17:12
  • @KeshavSrinivasan Then how lord Krishna accepted her as wife (If she is not human and from other race and Krishna was human in Dwapara)? – hanugm Jul 03 '17 at 17:18
  • @moonstar2001 If there was an example, then such marriages can be encouraged, else it is superstition. – hanugm Jul 03 '17 at 17:20
  • what logical construct is this? –  Jul 03 '17 at 17:21
  • @moonstar2001 If there was an example(from rishis, munis, gods.. ), it is not a sin, So it shouldn't be discouraged. – hanugm Jul 03 '17 at 17:24
  • @hanugm You are allowed to marry people belonging to non-human races, like Devas, Gandharvas, Vanaras, etc. It's only inter-caste marriages that have restrictions on them. – Keshav Srinivasan Jul 03 '17 at 17:25
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    but you yourself say you have found no such example. –  Jul 03 '17 at 17:31
  • More importantly, even if you did find such examples, are we capable of the same feats as rishis, munis, gods? We take their examples when flouting dharma. Not in emulating their tapas and charity. –  Jul 03 '17 at 17:37
  • @moonstar2001 The issue in finding such example is people are playing with words varna and caste. Some are saying that both are same, which is not correct, because there are too many castes and only 4 varnas. So caste is not same as Varna, If we stick to this, then there were lot of inter-caste marriages. – hanugm Jul 03 '17 at 18:32
  • @hanugm Caste and Varna are the same. Castes have different sub-castes/communities within them though. Hindu scripture imposes restrictions concerning marriage between different castes, not about marriage between different sub-castes of the same castes. – Keshav Srinivasan Jul 03 '17 at 22:07
  • so you want to prove inter-varna marriage is not acceptable? –  Jul 04 '17 at 01:27
  • Among the 16 combinations, only 6 are forbidden. https://imarriages.com/d/images/advice/how-kundali-matching-works-varna-chart.png

    Apart from this, I want to show that, there is nothing to do with caste, only Varna matters but not caste.

     – hanugm Jul 04 '17 at 04:35
  • @SudarshanaSuri On this site, both varna and caste are considered same. You can post about it on meta, if you want them to be treated differently. – Say No To Censorship Jun 19 '18 at 15:20
  • Varnashram belongs to the descendants of Manu, or Manav. Not other species. –  Jun 19 '18 at 16:29

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