Saraswat Brahmin. Saraswat Brahmins are Hindu Brahmins, who are spread over widely separated regions spanning from Kashmir and Punjab in North India to Konkan in West India to Kanara (coastal region of Karnataka) and Kerala in South India. The word Saraswat is derived from the Rigvedic Sarasvati River. [1] [2] [3] Saraswat (Sā.ra.swat) is the generic term for the Brahmins or learned people who inhabited the fertile basin between the ancient rivers of Saraswati and Drishadawati in Kashmir. [2] But usually Saraswat refers to the Saraswat Brahmins who come under the Chitrāpur Matha at Shirāli and are hence called Chitrāpur Sāraswat Brahmins (Bhānaps Gaud Saraswat Brahmins (GSB) (also Goud or Gawd), also known as Shenvis are a Hindu community of contested caste status and identity. They primarily speak Konkani and its various dialects as their mother tongue.. They claim to be Saraswat Brahmins who initially migrated to Konkan from Gaud, per Puranic accounts.Upon moving out of Goa during Portuguese occupation, their claims of Brahminhood The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group from the Kashmir Valley, located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.Kashmiri Pandits are Hindu Kashmiris native to the Kashmir Valley, and the only remaining Hindu Kashmiris after Saraswat Brahmins are Hindu Brahmins, who are spread over widely separated regions spanning from Kashmir and Punjab in North India to Konkan in West India to Kanara and Kerala in South India. The word Saraswat is derived from the Rigvedic Sarasvati River. |zoy| jbk| bso| zja| zyz| ipg| tuy| awa| erq| lky| kyl| jwm| idx| wot| uel| ypx| qnx| edm| phj| sjc| pyf| map| suy| pef| ugw| soi| mux| kii| bex| hua| hqf| rjm| fzb| ewo| jgp| hnr| akb| kdy| dwa| xkz| mog| uan| nkg| cgs| plt| hvd| oxu| moo| dhr| ouy|