e/Ranjitkar

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has gloss	eng: Ranjitkar (रंजितकार aka Chhipaa or Ranjit) is one of the castes of Newar. The Newari caste system is divided according to profession. The Ranjitkar caste is concerned with the dying of clothes as well as other color related activities. The word "Ranjitkar" comes from Sanskrit origins crudely meaning "people concerned with colors" whereas the word "Chhipaa" is a Nepal Bhasa compound word which can be roughly translated as "color and allow to dry".
lexicalization	eng: Ranjitkar
instance of	(noun) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity caste