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People belonging to a particular gotra may not be of the same caste (as there are many gotras which are part of different castes) in the Hindu social system. However, there is a notable exception among matrilineal Tulu speakers, for whom the lineages are the same across the castes. People of the same gotra are generally not allowed to marry.
This category contains articles on Indian Gotras, kinship structures that describe lineage in the Hindu community. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The Tamil purist movement of the colonial era sought to purge the Grantha script from use and use the Tamil script exclusively. According to Kailasapathy, this was a part of Tamil nationalism and amounted to regional ethnic chauvinism.
Pallava Dynasty {c.285–905 CE} was a brahmin of bharadwaj gotra (Tamil Samaṇar Dynasty) based originally from Palnadu and later from Kanchi, Pallavas ruled Andhra (Krishna-Guntur) and north and central Tamil Nadu. Appar is traditionally credited with converting the Pallava king, Mahendravarman to Saivaism. [8] [9]
In Hindu culture, the term gotra (Sanskrit: गोत्र) is considered to be equivalent to lineage. It broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor or patriline. Generally, the gotra forms an exogamous unit, with marriage within the same gotra being regarded as incest and prohibited by ...
A list of the Audichya Sashtra Brahmin community's Gotras and Pravaras, written in the Gujrati script. The seven major Brahmin Gotras take the names of the saints whose lineages they represent: Shandilya, Jamadagni, Upreti, Gautama, Atri, Vasishta and Kashyapa. [18] Over time however, as the Brahmin caste expanded, several more Brahmin Gotras ...
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U. V. Swaminatha Iyer, Indian researcher and Tamil scholar [19] Kachiyapper (8th century), Indian poet and Vedantist and the author of Kanda Puranam [20] K. S. Krishnan, Indian physicist, co-discoverer of the Raman scattering [21] Iravatham Mahadevan, Indian epigraphist and civil servant [22] Paridhiyaar, medieval Tamil scholar and Kural ...