09-30-2006, 01:29 PM
The Gosains consider their founder to have been Shankaracharya, the great apostle of the revival of the worship of Siva in Southern India , who lived between the eighth and tenth centuries. He had four disciples from whom the ten order of Gosai's are derived. These are commonly defined as follows
1. Tirtha (a shrine of pilgrimage) 2 Asharm{hermitage) 3. Ban or Van (the forest) 4 Aranya (forest) 5 Giri [Peak of mountain] 6. Parvat (a mountain) 7. Sagar (the ocean) 8 Saraswati (the Goddess of learning) 9. Bharthi (the Goddess of speech) 10. Puri ( a town)
<span style='font-family:Arial'>Can anybody give me the gotras of these order's of Goswami samaj?</span>
1. Tirtha (a shrine of pilgrimage) 2 Asharm{hermitage) 3. Ban or Van (the forest) 4 Aranya (forest) 5 Giri [Peak of mountain] 6. Parvat (a mountain) 7. Sagar (the ocean) 8 Saraswati (the Goddess of learning) 9. Bharthi (the Goddess of speech) 10. Puri ( a town)
<span style='font-family:Arial'>Can anybody give me the gotras of these order's of Goswami samaj?</span>