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This role of Hindu Brahmins in a Buddhist kingdom, states Leider, may have been because Hindu texts provide guidelines for such social rituals and political ceremonies, while Buddhist texts do not. [77] The Brahmins were also consulted in the transmission, development and maintenance of law and justice system outside India. [77]
Saraswats Brahmins are classified under the Pancha Gauda Brahmin classification of the Brahmin community in India. [3]In Western and South India, along with the Chitpavan, Karhades (including Padhyes, Bhatt Prabhus), and Konkani-speaking Saraswat Brahmins are referred to as Konkani Brahmins, which denotes those Brahmin sub-castes of the Konkan coast which have a regional significance in ...
According to an oral tradition, some Mohyal Brahmins helped Imam Hussain in the Battle of Karbala; these Mohyal Brahmins are called Hussaini Brahmins. [3] Prior to the Partition of India , Mohyal Brahmins lived primarily in the western Punjab , including present-day Hazara division and the Pir Panjal regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Jammu and ...
Kulin Brahmins trace their ancestry to five families of Kanyakubja Brahmins who migrated to Bengal. [14] [19] In the 11th century CE, after the decline of the Pala dynasty, a Hindu king, Adi Sura, brought in five Brahmins and their five attendants from Kannauj, his purpose being to provide education for the Brahmins already in the area, whom he thought to be ignorant, and to revive traditional ...
Bhor State, a 9 gun salute princely state ruled by Deshasthas Brahmins; Chaube Jagirs were a group of five feudatory princely states of central India during the period of the British Raj, which were ruled by different branches of Brahmin families. Darbhanga Raj of Mithila, Bihar - ruled by Maithil Brahmins
Banabhatta wrote India's first novel and was a poet in King Harsha's court [240] Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Poet who wrote India's national song Vande Matram [241] [242] D. R. Bendre [243] Garimella Satyanarayana, Telugu poet and freedom fighter [244] Gopalakrishna Adiga, Kannada poet who is known as "Pioneer of New style" poetry [245]
According to Ryosuke Furui, the Varnasamkara myth and the subsequent ordaining of Samkaras in Brh. P. reflected and reinforced the existing social hierarchy of ancient Bengal — that is, even in pre-Brahminized Bengal, the Baidyas had an eminent position and practiced medicine — while allowing the Brahmin authors to conform an alien society ...
Today, Iyers live all over South India, but an overwhelming majority of Iyers continue to thrive in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Brahmins form an estimated less than 3 per cent of the state's total population and are distributed all over the state. However, accurate statistics on the population of the Iyer community are unavailable. [10]