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{{ETG article
|term=Dwija
|person=No
|term diacritical=Dwijâ
|origin={{tip|Sk}}
|description=“Twice‐born”. In days of old this term was used only of the Initiated Brahmans; but now it is applied to every man belonging to the first of the four castes, who has undergone a certain ceremony {{etg-source|TG}}.
}}
|term=Dwija
|person=No
|term diacritical=Dwijâ
|origin={{tip|Sk}}
|description=“Twice‐born”. In days of old this term was used only of the Initiated Brahmans; but now it is applied to every man belonging to the first of the four castes, who has undergone a certain ceremony {{etg-source|TG}}.
}}