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Names for those who live by begging. Bhikṣu (藏文,भिक्षु,bhikṣu,Beggar): A beggar or a monk. It is divided into four types, such as those who practice at the peak. Likewise, it is a name for all four, such as celibacy. Āśrama (藏文,आश्रम,āśrama,Hermitage): All suffering or asceticism, if applied separately. Prathamāśramī. One who has the first asceticism or the first abode, etc., apply in order. For a Brahmin who knows the Vedas. Śrotriya (藏文,श्रोत्रिय,śrotriya,Learned in the Vedas): Learned. Chandas (藏文,छन्दस्,chandas,Metre): Learned in discipline. A name for studying the Vedas with six limbs, such as discipline. Anūcāna (藏文,अनूचान,anūcāna,Repeating): Reciting after. A name for always reading the Vedas with limbs and being allowed by the lama to stay at home. Samāvṛtta (藏文,समावृत्त,samāvṛtta,Returned): Perfectly entered from all sides. A name for closely showing the instructions without interruption. Etihyam. Having ancient lineage. Itiha. Having oral tradition. A name for knowing oneself first without instructions. Ubajñā. Knowing first. A name for starting work from skillful means. Upakrama (藏文,उपक्रम,upakrama,Beginning): Closely placing. A name for a Brahmin under sixteen years old who is deficient in forty-eight activities, because asceticism and charity are not appropriate, etc. Brātya. Appropriate for arrogant work. Brāta. It is explained that the word "arrogance" and similar words are used for work, so "ya" is a suffix for what is appropriate from that. Svādhyāya (藏文,स्वाध्याय,svādhyāya,Self-study): Reading well, because holding asceticism goes first and receiving the Vedas from the lama. If separated from that. Nirākṛti (藏文,निराकृति,nirākṛti,Formless): Without form. Tapasvī (藏文,तपस्वी,tapasvī,Ascetic): Having asceticism. Kṛcchra (藏文,कृच्छ्र,kṛcchra,Difficult): Asceticism or hardship. Vrata (藏文,व्रत,vrata,Vow): Ascetic practice. Yama (藏文,यम,yama,Restraint): Restraint. It should be known from the root commentary of Amārakosha, which has many names given in terms of the distinction between asceticism and ascetic practice. For those who are diligent in restraint, such as those who keep their place. Nirjitendriyagrāmāḥ (藏文,निर्जितेन्द्रियग्राम,nirjitendriyagrāmāḥ,Conquered the senses): It is said that the city of the senses is subdued. Furthermore, names for the five sciences, such as doctors, astrologers, astronomers, and poets, are shown in the section on terminology, etc., which are closely needed for the end of work and belong to the category of good things as appropriate. And various names for those who work in connection with the king. Others are ordinary people. Yāvasika (藏文,यावसिक,yāvasika,Grass seller): Grass seller. Kāṣṭhahāraka (藏文,काष्ठहारक,kāṣṭhahāraka,Wood carrier): Wood carrier. Soṇṭika. And Kallāpāla (藏文,कल्लापाल,kallāpāla,Liquor merchant): Liquor seller. Gandhika (藏文,गन्धिक,gandhika,Spice merchant): Incense seller. Āyudhadjīvī. Living by weapons. Karmāntika (藏文,कर्मान्तिक,karmāntika,Farmer): Farmer. Kṛṣīvala (藏文,कृषीवल,kṛṣīvala,Plowman): Plowing the field. Ābhaཱི་རཿ Herdsman. གོ་པཱ་ཡཿ Cowherd, etc. From the mixing of castes, born from the union of a Shudra (commoner) woman and a Vaishya (merchant) man: ཀ་ར་ཎཿ (Karana) Livelihood through writing. Born from the union of a Vaishya woman and a Brahmin man: ཨ་མྦཥྛཿ (Ambastha) Livelihood through medicine. The son born from the union of a Shudra woman and a Kshatriya (warrior) man is: ཨུ་གྲཿ (Ugra) Fierce one. Born from the union of a Kshatriya woman and a Vaishya man: མཱ་བྷ་བྷཿ (Mābhābha) Praiser. Born from the union of a Kshatriya man and a Vaishya woman: མཱ་ཧིཥྱཿ (Māhishya) Possessing buffaloes. Kshatriya woman and born from the union of a Shudra man: ཀྵཏྟྲྀ། (Kshattri) and ཀྵཏྟཱ། (Kshattā) Caretaker. The son born from the union of a Brahmin woman and a Kshatriya man is: སཱུ་ཏཿ (Sūta) Instigator. The son born from the union of a Brahmin woman and a Vaishya man is: བཻ་དེ་ཧ་ཀཿ (Vaidehaka) Livelihood through trade. Born from the union of a scribe woman and a Māhishya: ར་ཐ་ཀཱ་རཿ (Rathakāra) Chariot maker. Born from the union of a Shudra man and a Brahmin woman: ཙཎྜཱ་ལཿ (Chandala) Outcaste. This can also be written as ཙཱ་རིང་. Names for those inferior due to their caste and related occupations: བི་བརྞྞཿ (Vivarna) Unknown or caste-less. པཱ་མ་རཿ (Pāmara) Base. ནཱི་ཙཿ (Nīca) Lowly. པྲཱ་ཀྲྀ་ཏཿ (Prākrita) Commoner. པྲྀ་ཐགྫ་ནཿ (Prithagjana) Other-born. ནི་ཧཱི་ནཿ (Nihīna) Certainly inferior. ཨ་བ་སདཿ (Avāsada) Wrong conduct. ཛཱལྨ། (Jālma) Wicked or confused. ཀྵུལླ་ཀཿ (Kshullaka) Miserly. Also: ཁུལླ་ཀཿ (Khullaka) Small. ཨི་ཏ་རཿ (Itara) Other. It is also said like that. These base and lowly, etc., also apply to bad people. Names for servants: བྷྲྀ་ཏྱཿ (Bhritya) One who is supported. དཱ་སེརཿ (Dāsera) Slave owner. དཱ་སེ་ཡཿ (Dāseya) Son of a female slave. དཱ་སཿ (Dāsa) Servant. གོ་བྱ་ཀཿ (Gobyaka) Servant. ཙེ་ཊ་ཀཿ (Cetaka) One who is sent. ནི་ཡོ་ཛྱཿ (Niyojya) Slave. ཀིཾ་ཀ་རཿ (Kimkara) What to do. བྲཻ་ཥྱཿ (Braishya) Slave or one who is employed. Also: པྲཻ་ཥ། (Praisha) and བྲེཥྱཿ (Breshya) One who acts. ཛི་ཥྱཿ (Jishya) Leftovers. པ་རི་ཙཱ་ར་ཀཿ (Paricāraka) Attendant. Thus it is said. Names for those without livelihood, supported by others: པཱ་རཱ་ཙི་ཏཿ (Pārācita) Supported by others. པ་རི་སྐནྡྷཿ (Pariskandha) One who is sought. པ་ར་ཛཱ་ཏཿ (Parajāta) Born of others. པ་རཻ་དྷི་ཏཿ (Paraidhita) Protected by others. Names for hired workers: བྷྲྀ་ཏ་ཀཿ (Bhritaka) Hired worker. བྷྲྀ་ཏི་་ཛ྄་ཀ྄ (Bhriti-j) Wage earner. ཀརྨ་ཀ་རཿ (Karmakara) Laborer. བཻ་ཏ་ནི་ཀཿ (Vaitanika) One who lives on wages, and for the hired worker who carries provisions: བཱརྟྟཱ་བ་ཧཿ (Vārttāvaha) Carrier of livelihood. བཻ་བ་དྷི་ཀཿ (Vaibadhika) One who binds. Names for wages: ཀརྨ་ཎྱཱ། (Karmanya) Wage. བི་དྷཱ། (Vidhā) Accomplishment wage. བྷྲྀ་ཏྱཱཿ (Bhritya) Reward. བྷྲྀ་ཏིཿ (Bhriti) Wage. བྷརྨན྄། (Bharman) and བྷརྨ། (Bharma) Prize. བེ་ཏ་ནཾ (Vetanam)