gotra
गोत्र gotraLineage or clan, traced from a founding sage and declared by a student entering Vedic study, as in the story of Satyakama Jabala.
Where this term appears
- What is a gotra? Essentials
Open a Hindu matrimonial advertisement and, among the height and the education and the horoscope, you will often find a single Sanskrit word: the gotra.
- The Chandogya Upanishad: that you are Treatise
Satyakama wants to become a student, and to be initiated he must state his lineage, his gotra .
- The Seers Who Heard Treatise
Each of these six is associated with a single seer-lineage, a gotra , and the hymns within it are credited to that family's rishis.
- The Girl at the Library Door Treatise
…as born to a Maharashtrian Deshasta Brahmin family of the Vishvamitra gotra.
- The Manuals Treatise
…n 1690 in Hyderabad to a Maharashtrian Brahmin family of the Kaushika gotra , settled in Tamil Nadu under the patronage of King Serfoji II of Thanjavur, and lived until 1785 at his village Bhaskararajapuram nea…
- The Saubhagya-Kadi Line Treatise
In 1690, in the city of Hyderabad in what is now Telangana, a Maharashtrian Brahmin couple of the Kaushika gotra had their second son.