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Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha, also referred to as North-Indian Kayastha, is a subgroup of Hindus of the Kayastha community that are mainly concentrated in the Hindi Belt of North India. In Hindu texts and traditions, they are described to have descended from the Hindu god Chitragupta [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] who is usually depicted carrying "a flowing ...
Kayastha (or Kayasth) denotes ... Some contemporary Hindu scholars referenced ... author in Hindi language [115] Sachchidananda Sinha, lawyer prominent in the ...
Das is a common surname among all classes of Bengalis including Baidya, Bengali Kayastha, Mahishya, Tantubay, and others. [2] [3] In Bengal, the surname is also used by both Scheduled Castes [4] and General Castes. In Bihar, it is used by people belonging to Ambashtha and Karn Kayastha castes. [5]
The Hindu community in Bengal was divided into only two varnas: Brahmins and Shudras.Hence, although the Bengali Kayasthas and Baidyas had a high social status along with Brahmins, their ritual status was low, according to Edmund Leach, S. N. Mukherjee, [22] though it seems their ritual status is a subject of dispute as per other historians.
According to Hindu scriptures, the term Ambastha refers to the offspring of a Brahmin father and a Vaishya mother, whose traditional occupation was the practice of medicine. [1] [2] The term Ambastha is now used to describe a particular sub-caste within the Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha community, now found mainly in North-Indian region (Bihar and ...
The surname Pal (or Paul) is found in Bengal among Bengali Kayasthas. [3] [4] Historian Tej Ram Sharma mentions that the surname is "now confined to Kayasthas of Bengal" while referring to the names of Brahmins ending in such Kayastha surnames in the early inscriptions dating back to the Gupta period.
In the reign of the Mughals, a number of educated upper caste Hindus with sharp intellects attained administrative positions through rapid adaptation to the Persian language and culture of these new rulers of South Asia. These influential upper caste Hindus formed the Kayastha, whose secular viewpoint and adaptability allowed them to succeed.
Chitragupta (Sanskrit: चित्रगुप्त, romanized: Citragupta, 'rich in secrets' or 'hidden picture') is a Hindu deity who serves as the registrar of the dead. [1] He is assigned with the task of maintaining the records of the actions of human beings in a register called the Agrasandhanī .