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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.
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 ...
Marriages between different gotras are encouraged; marriage within the same gotra started to happen later. For example, Jats, Gurjars, and Rajputs have 13,000 Gotras . And Mudirajas of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have 2,600 Gotras. Gotra is always passed on from father to children among most Hindu communities.
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 ...
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 Saurashtra people, or Saurashtrians, [2] [3] are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic Hindu Brahmin community of South India who speak the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan Gujarati language, and predominantly reside in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Each Gotra, which is a unit of the Brahmanical exogamous system, is subdivided into several ganas, each with its own distinctive pravara. All ganas within one Gotra usually have at least one pravara-name in common. While the connection of pravaras with exogamy is considered secondary, the pravara system is closely related to the system of gotras.
Andal (c.767), Tamil literature; Anukulchandra Chakravarty, also known as Sree Sree Thakur (1888–1969) Arunagirinathar (15th century A.D.) Avvaiyar (c. 1st and 2nd century AD), Tamil literature; Ayya Vaikundar (1809–1851) Atri (Vedic times) Rig Veda; Baba Hari Dass (26 March 1923 – 25 September 2018) Baba Mast Nath (born 1764)