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Brahmin Gotra List

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Brahmin Gotra List

February 23, 2014

Each gotra takes the name of a famousRishi or sage

Gotra is a concept of patrilineal classification, which identifies the families of a caste.
The original rishis after whom the gotras were named were just Seven in number .
Gotras were further subdivided into ganas and sub ganas.

Another concept is that of Pravar Rishis who were a few of the most learned and capable sages belonging to that gotra;Each Brahmin was thus known by his gotra, pravar, sutra and shakha.

There are exceptions to the rule too. For example the descendents of Maharishis Bhrigu and Angirasa cannot marry, because of the same Pravara Rishis, which are common to the two individuals.

The weddings in India are fixed as per the Gotra of the bride and groom.
Gotra matching is one of the most important concerns in North indian Hindu matrimony.

Wedding in similar Gotra is strictly prohibited.

A Gotra has three Rishis.
This indicates the fact some of the Rishis had more than one wife, at different times , for example Parasara.

I that case the male offspring from each of the Wives are added and the third if there are any more differentiation.

Another instance is when a Rishi changes his Varna.

Viswamitra was a Kshatriya and his original name was Kausika.
Later he became a Brahmin after he reealized Brahma Gnana.Then he was called a Barhmin and his Gotra was changed from Kausika to Viswamitra.

The List of Brahmin Gotras,

Aamat
Agastya

Agastya
Ainakula
Audala
Angirasa
Atri
Akshinthala
Aatreya
Bharadwaj
Bhargava
Bhrigu
Brihadbala
Chandratre
Dhananjaya
Dubey
Garg
Gautam
Gaur
Harinama
Haritasya
Jamadagni
Jilakara
Kadam
Kashyapa
Kaushal
Kaplansh
Kaundinya
Kutsa
Manu
Mouthkalya
Sabarniya
Marichi
Nanda
Nageswar
Parashar
Sandilya
Saroha Village Luhara
Shiva(Shiv-adi)
Siwal
Srivatsa
Tayal
Upamanyu
Upreti
Uttam
Vashista
Vishnu
Vishvamitra
Vishrava
Shringi
Khilaivar
Pachori
Nandhi






http://shrigaurbrahmanmahasabhabikaner.blogspot.in/2010/12/list-of-brahmin-gotras.html
https://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/brahmin-gotra-list/
 
We have discussed this in depth in the past.
This post is not new. The subject is dubious at best.
http://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=17145&p=261501#post261501
http://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=17145&p=248058#post248058

Pjji,
Do not get upset, but you post things that have been discussed a number of times. To you and newer members the subject might be new, but you must search and link the old threads.
Anand Manoharji had posted:

[ Every once-in-while, drab subjects such as Who is a Brahmin ? / Should Brahmins Eat Meat ?
keep re-incarnating in this Forum - so too with this thing on GOTRA ]

GOTHRAM is derived from noun GO + rootverb TRA of Sanskrit which
means -> Cow + Protect. Earlier, 'Gothram' used to be a place
where cattle were protected and reared, usually in hermiatge premises
or AASHRAMAs, since dairy products were much useful for YAJNA or
fire sacrifice. In simple meaning, A GOTRA is a cattle rearing group,
identified with the head of the group, obviously a sage.
Naturally, the same group had parents, brothers, sisters, blood
relatives and were much similar in activities and culture or customs.



Due to scarcity of pasture or climatic abnormalities, the GOTRAs went
nomadic, spreading out to different river valleys and other
fertile lands where they set up their own GOTRAs, of course named
after their leader, a sage. For example, the first known GOTRA,
KASHYAPA gotra, split into VASISHTHA, ATRI, JAMADAGNI, BHARADWAJA,
VISHWAMITRA, GOUTAMA and so on. Since they were Vedic groups,
they excelled in different fields of knowledge and maintained
their 'specialization', which came to symbolize the respective GOTRA.
On marriage, Gotra of wife and cows she carried with her would change
to Gotra of the husband.

From Wiki:
Khap panchayats in Haryana have been making a huge fuss over banning "same gotra marriages." Kadyan Khap International convener Naresh Kadyan had moved a petition seeking amendment to the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) to legally prohibit marriages in the same gotra. However, the petition was dismissed as withdrawn after a vacation. Bench of Justices S N Dhingra and A K Pathak of the Delhi High Court warned that a heavy cost would be imposed on the petitioner for wasting the time of the court.


In course of the proceedings, the bench observed,


“You don’t know what is a gotra. Which Hindu text prescribes banning of sagotra (same clan) marriage? Why are you wasting the time of the court? If you are not able to substantiate your words, then you should not have come before the court.”


In the court case "Madhavrao vs Raghavendrarao" which involved a Deshastha Brahmin couple, the German scholar Max Mueller's definition of gotra as descending from eight sages and then branching out to several families was thrown out by reputed judges of a Bombay High Court. The court called the idea of Brahmin families descending from an unbroken line of common ancestors as indicated by the names of their respective gotras "impossible to accept." The court consulted relevant Hindu texts and stressed the need for Hindu society and law to keep up with the times, emphasizing that notions of good social behavior and the general ideology of the Hindu society had changed. The court also said that the mass of material in the Hindu texts is so vast and full of contradictions that it is almost an impossible task to reduce it to order and coherence.

http://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=17145&p=248573#post248573
 
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Again quoting Anand Manoharji:
personally feel it is better to claim to be from the 'Narayana Gotra ' [ or Shiva Gotra if someone wants to split hairs ]
rather than lay a dubious claim to to superior birth by way of quoted lineage supposedly from one of the Sapta Rishis,
through their Patnis or Gana Patnis [ whatever that means ! ]
 
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