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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 18.44
paricaryatmakam karma
SYNONYMS
krsi -- plowing; go -- of cows; raksya -- protection; vanijyam -- trade; vaisya -- of a vaisya; karma -- duty; svabhava-jam -- born of his own nature; paricarya -- service; atmakam -- consisting of; karma -- duty; sudrasya -- of the sudra; api -- also; svabhava-jam -- born of his own nature.
TRANSLATION
Farming, cow protection and business are the natural work for the vaisyas, and for the sudras there is labor and service to others.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness