08-05-2006, 06:16 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->South Indian brahmanas also perform Vedic rites perfectly, and their pronunciation, intonation and chanting is impeccable
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No doubt this is true.
The Tamil chanting of the Taittiriya Krshna Yajurveda is the best in the whole country.
But how many people attend the Veda Pathasalas?
Just a few thousand or so. What about the rest?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am still talking about the giving of firstnames; the surname amongst many of us Tamils is still the father's first name.
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What the surname is to the Europeans the Gotram is to us.
The Gotram is the name of the first Paternal ancestor from whom the practice of preserving ancestral names began.
There were probably ancestors even before that, but the Gotram is the ancestral benchmark.
I have suggested we use a combination of the Jati and Gotram as the surname.
Would you agree that this is a good choice?
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No doubt this is true.
The Tamil chanting of the Taittiriya Krshna Yajurveda is the best in the whole country.
But how many people attend the Veda Pathasalas?
Just a few thousand or so. What about the rest?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am still talking about the giving of firstnames; the surname amongst many of us Tamils is still the father's first name.
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What the surname is to the Europeans the Gotram is to us.
The Gotram is the name of the first Paternal ancestor from whom the practice of preserving ancestral names began.
There were probably ancestors even before that, but the Gotram is the ancestral benchmark.
I have suggested we use a combination of the Jati and Gotram as the surname.
Would you agree that this is a good choice?