11-30-2006, 06:31 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-kartiksri+Nov 28 2006, 02:05 AM-->QUOTE(kartiksri @ Nov 28 2006, 02:05 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm a Vadama Iyer from Palakkad.
I heard somewhere that Bharadwaja is the most common gotra. Does it also mean that
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bharadvAja-s are the most frequent gotra amongst Telugu smArtas and vaDamAs, both of which are genetically close group of brAhmaNas.
They are not the most frequent group amongst various Maharashtra smArtas or differen groups of North Indian brahmins of the pa~ncha gauDa division. The bv-s are however fairly frequent amongst gauDa sArasvatas who originated amongst the pa~ncha-gauDa before moving south.
You cannot always say from your pravara when your ancestors moved south. In general there were 3 major waves of vaDamas. One prior to rAmAnuja the vaiShNava guru, a second during Moslem depredations in the 1300s and another during the southerward shift in vijayanagara when Hampi fell to the Moslems.
I heard somewhere that Bharadwaja is the most common gotra. Does it also mean that
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bharadvAja-s are the most frequent gotra amongst Telugu smArtas and vaDamAs, both of which are genetically close group of brAhmaNas.
They are not the most frequent group amongst various Maharashtra smArtas or differen groups of North Indian brahmins of the pa~ncha gauDa division. The bv-s are however fairly frequent amongst gauDa sArasvatas who originated amongst the pa~ncha-gauDa before moving south.
You cannot always say from your pravara when your ancestors moved south. In general there were 3 major waves of vaDamas. One prior to rAmAnuja the vaiShNava guru, a second during Moslem depredations in the 1300s and another during the southerward shift in vijayanagara when Hampi fell to the Moslems.