sentences:  The Chatharīya, for example, succeeded in producing the required social credentials to prove that the Chatharīya tharghar (families of noble extraction, and referred to as "asal Srestha") alone were "pure" Kshatriyas, where as similar claims by other Newar castes were not successful.As a consequence, among the Newars, caste has become more complex and stratified than among the non-Newar group.This latter group may consider all Newar people to be equally Matawali, essentially placing all upper-caste Newars in the Vaishya "varna" and lower-caste Newars among the clean Shudras, but this has never been the perception of the Newars themselves, especially among high-caste Newars.