Hinduism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...laborers). The four stages of life are brahmacharya or celibate student life (originally for study of the Veda), grihastha or householdership...orthodox Hindu religious practice, is influential in the mainstream Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), one of Indias most important...