E. Ind. Also 8 Chittery, 8–9 Cshatriya. [Skr. kshatriya a member of the military or reigning order (which in later times constituted the second caste), f. kshatra rule, authority.] A member of the military caste, the second of the four great castes or classes among the Hindus (cf. KHATRI).
1782. G. Forster, Journ. Bengal to Eng. (1798), I. 54, note. The Chittery occasionally takes himself to traffic, and the Sooder has become the inheritor of principalities.
1794. Sir W. Jones, Inst. of Menu, i. § 31 Wks. 1799, III. 69. He [Brahma] caused the Brahmen, the Cshatriya, the Vaisya, and the Súdra … to proceed from his mouth, his arm, his thigh, and his foot.
1834. Caunter, Orient. Ann., ix. 120. She was the daughter of a wealthy Cshatrya, in the neighbourhood of Delhi.
1849. E. B. Eastwick, Dry Leaves, 7. Here Indra, Rudra, Brimha, and Vishnú are said to have re-produced the warrior caste or Kshatris, who had been extirpated by Parsurám on account of their impiety.
