Jati Mimamsa: A critique of caste

Man's humanity marks out the human kind

Even as bovinity proclaims a cow.

Brahminhood and such are not thus-wise;

None do see this truth, alas!

One of caste, one of relegion and one in God is man;

Of one womb, of one form; difference therein none.

Within a species, is it not, that offspring truly breed?

The society of man thus viewed, to a single caste belongs.

Of the human species is even a Brahman born, as is the Pariah too,

Where is difference then in caste as between man and man?

In bygone days of a Pariah woman the great sage Parasara was born,

As even he of Vedic aphorism fame of a virgin of the fisher-fold.