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The Brahmins were also consulted in the transmission, development and maintenance of law and justice system outside India. [77] Hindu Dharmasastras , particularly Manusmriti written by the Prajapati Manu, states Anthony Reid, [ 78 ] were "greatly honored in Burma (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand), Cambodia and Java-Bali (Indonesia) as the defining ...
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; Dighapatia Raj of Bengal - ruled by Roy lineage - (Varendra Brahmins)
The earliest historical evidence of settlement of Brahmins in Assam comes from epigraphic sources of the Varman dynasty (350–650). [6] In the late medieval period beginning with the early 16th century, a number of Brahmins from Mithila, Benaras, Kanauj, Bengal and Puri (Srikshetra), were settled in western Assam by the Koch kings for performing Brahminical rites.
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 ...
Kalhana, in his Rajatarangini (c. 12th century CE), classifies the following five Brahmin communities as Pancha Dravida, stating that they reside to the south of the Vindhyas: [1] [2] Karnataka (Karnataka Brahmins) Tailanga (Telugu Brahmins) Dravida (Brahmins of Tamil Nadu and Kerala) Maharashtraka (Maharashtrian Brahmins)
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 ...
[4] [5] [6] Over time, the dominance of the "upper caste" Brahmin and Nair nobles gradually declined due to social and political changes. [7] [8] [9] Like the rest of India, the lower castes touching the upper castes was termed as "pollution," but only in Kerala did the lower castes pollute not just by touch but also by merely approaching an ...
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 ...