There are 750 million+ Hindus in the world, most concentrated in India (pearls.org). ... These stories allow " people in every class, caste, and stratum of Hindu society, literate or illiterate [illiteracy is very high in India] [to be] at home in the same universe- (Earhart, p. 780). ... The legend of the "man who woke up" is generally as follows adapted from Smith (p. 83-4) When Siddhartha Gautama was born his parents commissioned a future seer who said if he remained in the world he was destined to unite all of India. ...

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The most dominant belief in Hindu is that one's social status/caste CasteLatin, castus, "pure," "segregated," or "cut off" one of five extremely rigid social classes based on a system utilized in India from ancient times through the present day. ...

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