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The name Devrukhe is a corrupted form of the word "Devarshi". This community is small in numbers compared to other Maharashtrian Brahmins such as Deshastha Brahmin, Saraswat Brahmin, Konkanastha Brahmin and Karhade Brahmin. [2]
Brahmin (/ ˈ b r ɑː m ɪ n /; Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण, romanized: brāhmaṇa) is a varna within Hindu society. The other three varnas are the Kshatriya , Vaishya , and Shudra .
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad holds that Vishvamitra, Jamadagni, Upreti, Gautama, Atri, Vasishta and Kashyapa are the first Brahmin saints of the Vedic age and the sole ancestors of the Brahmin community, and while this list is largely accepted within most Brahmin communities, the identities of the saints who form the Saptarishi in fact vary ...
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Andhra Vaishnavas form a single distinct sect and are not divided into the Vadakalai and Tenkalai denominations, unlike the Tamil Iyengars coreligionists. [4] Their practices are similar to Tenkalai denomination as they follow Tenkalai Sri Vaishnava mutts of Tirukoilur Emperumanar Jiyar mutt , Yathiraja Jiyar mutt and Tirupati Ramanuja Jiyar mutt .
Satani is a community that renders temple services in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana in India. Traditionally, they have rendered a variety of services as supervisors and purohits of minor temples, guardians of temple properties, heralds, singers and torch-bearers at festivals, bodyguards of Jiyars, and providers of umbrellas, flower garlands, and namam clay. [1]
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