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@Panidapu.Chandrasekhar: welcome to wikipedia. Please see content policies and guidelines, particularly WP:RS. Do you have reliable source(s) that suggest Dvija were four, to support the change you made here? Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 14:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Olivelle missed a reference in the pali canon

Olivelle is cited as a source for the idea that dvija appears only very late. I discussed this with him years ago, and we could not identify any references in the Pali canon. However there is one, at thig 15.1:31.3, Annena ca pānena ca / Tappaya samaṇe dvijātī ca, “satisfy with food and drink ascetics and the twice-born”. Clearly dvijā must be a term for Brahmins here. Note the Sanskritic form; in Pali when referring to birds it is normally dija. Anyway this is original research so I'm not sure how it relates to Wikipedia, but it is a fact that the term "twice-born" is used of Brahmins in an early Buddhist text, likely some centuries before it appears in Sanskrit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.186.33.30 (talk) 07:23, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Dvija" is also found in the puranas -- the fifth Veda. Atheists cannot understand the Vedic culture, but rather mess things up. 67.204.247.30 (talk) 16:37, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]