Varna of Athenian City-State

January 7, 1996

Q: Was the Athenian city-state, in its classical period, a

ksattriyan or a vipran society?

The Athenian city state was a vipran society.

Ksattriyas were used to enforce the will of the vipras, not

the reverse. That is why there was so much development of

arts and science. It was a vipran society.

Q: Is it that Athens was destroyed by invaders before the vaeshyan era began and that the presence of a vipran society

does not necessarily mean the social cycle will be completed?

That is correct. The Athenian society was destroyed

through weakness of its defenses and also through internal

degeneration. From both sides destruction came. The culture

reached a peak, but there was a certain amount of corruption,

and this corruption, along with weakness in defense,

provided the downfall for the city-state. And rival forces

became overpowering and the culture was destroyed. The city

itself was in ruins, and so the full cycle of that particular

place was not fulfilled. There was reversion to shudra era for

a short time and then again the cycle progressed. Ksattriyas

soon became dominant and then the vipran society was

reestablished in the middle ages. And vaeshyas then took

dominance.