NORTH INDIAN METHOD OF CHECKING COMPATIBILITY
( Note : Please convert to UNICDE 8 to read the text given in Sanskrit)
While in south India we check Dina KUTA, GANA KUTA, MAHENDRA KUTA, STHREE DEERGHA, YONI, RASI, GRAHA MAITHRI, VASHYA, RAJJU VEDA, IN NORTH INDIA they CALL IT ASHTAKOOT MATCHING Viz.:1.. Varna 2. Vashya 3. Tara 4. Yoni 5. Graha Maitri 6. Gana 7. Bhakoot ( RASI KOOTA)8. Nadi . and 2 DOSHAS are RAJJU AND VEDHA.
The Varna system is followed in North India. Is from RASIS ONLY. But South Indians check VARNA from RAASIS and if it is not found conducive then check as per NAKSHATHRAS and if found agreeable the astrologers say that VARNA KUTA is compatible. Since this is not dealt by Sri. P.S. KRISHNAN, I shall explain both systems
VARNA SYSTEN FOLLOWED BY BOTH SOUTH INDIANS AND NORTH INDIANS:.
As per RASIS in which the Moon is placed in the Horoscopes :
The castes (VARNA0 is divided as per the RAASI in which the moon is situated as BRAHMANA, KSHATHRIYA, VAISYA and SHUDRA. They are as follows :-
According to the following verses :
मीनाळी कर् क्कॊ विप्रः
क्षत्री मॆषो हरिर् धनुः
शुभाः युग्मं तुला कुम्भं वैस्याः
कन्या व्रुषॊ म्रुगः.
Meaning : If the Raasi in which the Moon situates is one among Meena, Vrischika or Karkkataka then the Varna is BRAHMANA., If the Rasi ( House ) in which the MOON situates is one among MESHA, SIMHA or DHANUS then KSHATHRIYA ; If the House in which moon situates is Vrishabha, Thula or Kumbha then Viasya; and If the Moon is in Kanya,
AS PER NAKSHATHRAS IN WHICH THE GIRL AND BOY ARE BORN ( This method is recognized and can be adopted if there is no compatibility as per the first one. )
“ क्रमात् द्विज क्षत्रिय वैश्य शूद्राः
वर्णानुलॊम प्रतिलॊमजौ च
ऋक्षाणि दस्र प्रभृतीनि षट् षट्
भाद्रात्रयं विप्र नरॆन्द्र वैश्याः – माधवीयं.
संयॊगो वर यॊषितॊरति श्यमः स्यादॆक जातीयतॊः
श्रॆष्टश्चॊत्तम जातिझॊ यदि पुमान् स्त्री हीनजात्युत्भवॊ
कष्तम् तद्विपरीतता यदि भवॆन्मद्ध्यॊ अनुलॊमॊत्भवैः
स्त्रीपुंसैः प्रतिलॊमजैश्च न शुभॊ वर्णॊत्भवानां क्वचित् l
According to this method the stars starting from Aswini. Bharani. Krthika and Rohini are to be treated as Brahman, leaving Mrigasia as Anulomaand and Ardra as Prathiloma respectively ie. The same way other stars are also to be counted.
Then comes BHADRA THRYAM” which are Poovabhadra, Utharabhadra and Revathi They are to be treated as Brahmana , Kshathriya, and Vaisya respectively.
For those who are learners I shall tell this : BRAHMAN NAKSHATHRAS are Aswini, Panarvasu, Hastha, Moola and Poorvabhadra..
Kshathriya Stars are Bharani, Pushya, Chithra, Poorvaashaada and Utharabhadra,
Vaisya Nakshathras are Krithika, Aslesha, Swathi, Uthra and Revathi,
Shudra Nakshathras are Rohini , Makha, VishAkha and Shravana
Anuloma Nakshathras are Mrugasir, Puva Phalguni, Anuradha and Dhanishta
Prathiloma Stars are Ardra, Uthra phalguni, Jyeshta and Shatha Bhishak.
Friends I think I have given the explanation to the best of my knowledge and ability. .
According to BRUHASPATHI :
“ऎकजातिषु संयॊगः शुभः स्यादुत्तमॊत्तमः
अनुलॊमॆन संयॊगॊ भिन्न जातिषु मध्यमः
प्रतिलॊम्यॆधमॊ यॊगॊ.जाति यॊग उदाहृताः”
As per this , the compatibility of the horoscopes of a boy and a girl born in the same VARNA ( CASTE ), is highly compatible. If the boy is born in a higher caste (VARNA) then it can be considered as Madhyama. However there is no match between Prathiloma boy and girl. .
There are cancellation for this COMPATIBILITY. :
If there is Rasyadhipa compatibility in the, Horoscopes it is an antidote for Varna Koota i.e. it cancels the evil due to this compatibility..
If there is no Varna compatibility , give DANA to a Brahmin, a cow or gold, or meals, or cloth. This will ward off the evil effects. .
2. VASYA : This is checked as we check as per MUHURTHA SAMGRAHA
3. THARA KUTA : This is nothing but DINA KUTA CHECK as per our South Indian Compatibility Check.
4. GANA KUTA : This is also as we check.
5. YONI : There is no difference in this check
6. GRAHA MAITHRI : There is no difference
7.. BHAKOOT :This is also same as we check RASI KOOTA
8. NAADI KOOT : This is the same we check as RAJJU DOSHA. In this system the nakshathras are grouped in 5 types; namely KATI RAJJU, PAADA RAJJU, KANTHA RAJJU, NABHI RAJJU or Udara Rajju and SHIRO RAJJU.
While KATI RAJJU contains BHARANI, PUSHYA, PURVA PHALGUNI, ANURADA, PURVASHADA and UTHARABHADRA , PAADA RAJJU contains ASWINI, ASLESHA, MAKHA, JYESHTA, MOOLA and REVATHY. KANTA RAJJU contains ROHINI,ARDRA, HASTHA, SWATHY, SHRAVANA and SHATHABHISHAK.
UDARA RAJJU contains KRITHIKA, PUNARVASU, UTHARA, VISAKHA, UTHARAASHAADA and POORVABHADRA. And SHIRI RAJJU contains DHANISHTA, CHITHRA and MRUGASHIRA.
Generally we ignore this Koota but NORTH INDIANS give importance to this Koota.
We check only Madhyama Rajju Dosha.
This is called ASHTAKOOT CHECK avoiding MADHYAMA RAJJU and VEDHA are important for both South and North Indians.
Having said this I shall now deal with ASTROLOGICAL METHOD OF TREATING GOTHRA , although many have written for and against this check.
Astrologically the GOTHRAS are divided into 7 (SEVEN) groups. It is said that both the boy and girl should not come in the same GOTHRA as prescribed herein :
RISHI NAKSHATHRAS BELONGING TO THE RISHI
1, MAREECHI : ASWINI, PUSHYA, SWATHY, ABHIJITH
2. VASISHTA BHARANI, ASLESHA, VISHAKHA, SHRAVANA
3, AAMGEERASA KRITHIKA, MAGHA, ANURADHA, DHANISHTA
4. ATHRI ROHINI, PURVAPHALGUNI,JYESHTA,
SHATHABHISHAK
5. PULASTHYA MRUGASHIRA,UTHARA, MOOLA,
PURVABHADRA
6. PULAHA ARDRA,HASTHA, POORVAASHAADA,
UTHARABHADRA
7. KRATHU PUNARVASU,CHITHRA, UTHARASHADA
REVATHI
The above division shows how much holloe is of our method of division of GOTHRA (SAGOTHRA)
To prove my contention I am giving the Sanskrit version below on this subject :
“ दस्रादिकानाम् ऋषयॊ मरीचि
श्रॆष्टॊवसिष्टॊ मुनिरंगिराश्च
अत्रिःपुलस्त्यः पुलः क्रितुश्च
क्रमॆणभाना मभिजिद्युतानां l”
Again :
ऎकर्षि गॊतॊत्भवयॊर् विपत्तिं
करॊति कन्यानरर् विवाहः
विभिन्न गॊत्रॊद्भवयॊः त्रियाच
भजन्म गॊत्रैक्यमपीह मद्ध्यं l/
Note : भजन्म means the nakshathra in which the Lagna Sphuta comes.
Friends, I am very clear in my statement that I DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE SAGOTHRA CONCEPT OF BRAHMINS. I am of the opinion that, in this regards , we must get the boy and girl checked by a competent expert.
There are many more compatibility checks which are not much checked, of which some of them are given below :
MANA PORUTHTHAM (b) CHOLANUMOOLA PORUTHTHAM (c) PAANDYANUKOOLA PORUTHTHAM (d) REKHA PORUTHTHAM (e) ISHWARA KRUPAA PORUTHTHAM (f) VIDYAA VINAYA PORUTHTHAM (g) STHANAABHIJAATHYA PORUTHTHAM (h) SHRUTHI PORUTHTHAM (i) VAYA PPORUTHTHAM (j) AAYU PPORUTHTHAM (k) RUNA PPORUTHTHAM (l) NIRA PORUTHTHAM , (m RATHNA PORUTHTHM ETC.
Monday, November 22, 2010
GAUDA SARASWATH BRAHMINS
I had written about Sanketi Brahmin who are found in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu but mostly in Karnataka. They speak a dialect which is a mixture of Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam. Now I am giving about another Brahmin section of people who are smarthas
like us all, but considered lower in status among brahmins belonging to IYER and others. They are popularly known as GSBs or Gauda Saraswath Brahmin, I have also a doubt that
they derived the name from their GURU and founder , GAUDACHARYA and from the
the river Saraswathi since they came from thwe villages on the banks of this mythical river.
According to WIKIPEDIA :-
“The exact origin of the Saraswat Brahmins is difficult to ascertain. The Saraswat Brahmins are mentioned in the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and even in the Bhavisyottara Purana.Either they may have come from Central Asia to the Indian sub-continent through the Hindu-Kush mountains and the Khyber pass to south in about 2000-1500 B.C or they were Indigenous”
There are two different versions about their origin. According to one version they are the off-springs of Goddess SARASWATHY, the mother of Knowledge. The other one which is believed by many writers of History, is that they are Brahmins who came from villages which were on the banks of the mythical river, the Saraswathy. There are two types of Gauda Saraswath Brahmins Viz : followers of (1) GAUDACHARYA. (2) Followers of Madhwacharya.
Friends, I had written that Adi Shankara was the disciple of Govinndacharya whose Guru or Preceptor was Gaudacharya who taught monism or ADVAITHA to HH.Govindacharya who in turn taught HH. Adi Shankara. Although, we consider them inferior to us because they eat fish etc, they are the first followers of ADVAITHA preached by GAUDACHARYA, who is Adi Shankara’s preceptor’s preceptor., The first Mutt of Gaudacharya was constructed by these Gauda Saraswat Brahmins in Goa at KELOSHI which was destructed by portughese and hence they rebuilt it in another part of Goa called KAVALE MUTT which is considered as the ADI MUTT by Gauda Saraswath Brahmins. “They derived their name from either the river Saraswati or from their spiritual leader Great Sage Saraswat Muni who lived on the banks of the River Saraswati. These Brahmins were one of the Pancha Gowda Brahmin groups who lived north of the Vindhyas. They belonged to Smarta tradition and primarily worshiped the five deities: Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Surya and Ganesha.”However, when MADHWACHARYA while returning from North India to UDUPI came via GOA and converted few of then to MADHWA CULT.
These Brahmins can be seen in KERALA especially in erstwhile North Malabar, Koshikode, Eranakulam etc. At Eranakulam, they have built a temple called THIRUMALA VEKATESWARAR TEMPLE. There is a story about this Temple
“STORY OF THE COCHIN VENKATEWARA DEITY”
“Sri Vijayindra Tirtha of Kumbakonam mutt gave this magnificent idol of Lord Venkatewara to the GSB community at Cochin.
The story
During 15th Century AD, the Vijayanagar Kingdom was ruled by a pious king Saluva Narasimha, one of the popular royal dynasties of ancient India. This king was an ardent devotee of Lord Venkateswara of Tirupati and used to visit the temple by walking up the hill for worship. When the king became old, and incapable to walk, it is said that the king's prayers were answered by the Lord.
One day a sculptor appeared before him and agreed to make an idol of the Lord for his daily worship. The king gave the sculptor the required materials for making the idol and the sculptor shut himself up in a room. As he did not come out of the room even after a reasonably long period, the room was broken open only to see the idol of the Lord, the sculptor missing. It is believed that the Lord himself came as the sculptor and the idol is considered as Swayambhu or self born. The king built a temple for the idol and he was instructed by the Lord in his dreams to consecrate the idol during the auspicious time, when the heavenly drums dundubhi would be heard. As fate would have it, some crows happened to fly over the royal drums with twigs in their beaks and the twigs accidentally dropped on the drums producing a sound, which was mistaken for the auspicious hour indicated by the Lord. The idol was duely consecrated at that hour which was inauspicious.The grief stricken king was pacified by the Lord in his dreams that He would remain with him till his death, after which he would leave for a place by name Gosripuram. After the demise of the king, a great fire broke out in the kingdom and the idol was thrown into a dilapidated well. As the legend has it, Swami Vijayendra Thirtha of Sree Kumbhakonam Mutt who happened to traverse that region during one of his tours, is said to have been led by a serpent to the well wherein the idol of the Lord was deposited. The Swamiji recovered the idol from the well and started worshipping the idol along with his other idols. Swami Vijayendra Tirtha visited Cochin and performed Chaturmasa Vrita among the Gowda Saraswat Brahmin Community of Cochin. Upon seeing the radiance of the idol, the community of Cochin under the leadership of Sri Mala Pai, requested the idol from the Swamiji. The Swamiji agreed to hand over the idol in exchange for a heap of gold coins that would immerse the idol. All the gold coins brought in by the wealthy Mala Pai could cover only the body of the idol and not its tip. It was presumed that the Lord did not want to stay at cochin as a property of an individual. Only gold coins and ornaments brought in from the home of every community member could cover the tip of the idol. Kanakabishekam, a symbolic ritual of this immersion of the idol in gold is performed to the Lord even to this day during any special occasion.”
I feel these section of GAUD SARASWATHS belong to MADHWA tradition. Who are called Vaishnava Saraswats .
In Kerala these brahmins are called കൊങ്ങിണി ചെട്ടികള്. ( KONGINI CHETTIKAL ), although, they are also Brahmins like us.
The following are the MUTTS OF GAUDA SARSWATH BRAHMINS in which TWO are of Gauda Saraswat Brahmins belonging to MADHWA TRADITINS AND THE OTHER TWO OF ADVAITHA TRADITION respectively ::-
(1) SRI. KASHI MUTT of Varanasi (2) GOKARNA MUTT ( Both MADHWA SAMPRADAYA )
(3) SRI CHITRAPUR MUTT AND (4) SRI GAUDA PAADAACHAARYA MUTT both
ADVAITHA SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.
The subects in Gauda Saraswath Brahmins are VENSARKAR, ASGAONKAR,SHIRODKAR,GAVASKAR,TENDULKAR,WAGLE, RAJADYAKSHA MALLAYAS, SHENOYS, PAIS, KAMATHS, KINIS, NAYAK, BALIGAS, BHATTS, ACHARYAS, VAADYARS, PUROHITS, PRABHUS Etc.
Among Gauda Saraswath Brahmins, we see some wearing one NAMA in Red Sindhoor vertically and some others wearing Bhasma in parallel. three rows on their foreheads. . This must be because some adhered to their original SMARTHA TRADITION and others converted to MADHA TRADITION. Friends, among tamil Brahmins also we see in Palakkad some wearing one red Nama and others wearing Bhasma. In west Village of Pallassana most of the Brahmins wear GOPI CHANDANA on their forehead.
Friends, a peculiarity with Gauda Sarasath Brahmins is that some of them adopted their surnames as the village of origin and others their profession..
They all belong to one or the other Gothra as we all belong such as Bharadwaja, Kausika,
Srivatsa. Kaundinya, Kashapa, Atri, Vasishta, Viswamithra, Garga , Bhargava etc.
They also conduct UPANAYANAM like us which they call MUNJI ( Probably a KONKINI derivation for Upanayanam ) to boys when they attain 8 years of age. They have also KULADAIVAM like us.
The SMARTHA GAUDA SARASWATH BRAHMINS believe in MANGESH TEMPLE which is in Goa dedicated to Lord Shiva. I have gone to this old temple which they say is 400 years old. They, in general believe in Five deities in the form of Shiva, Vishnu, Durga, Surya and Ganapati. ( PANCHAYATHA}.like us ( आदित्य्मंबिकां विष्णुं गणनाथं महॆश्वरं ) SHIVA PANCHAYATHANA POOJA.
Just like we brahmins, they also perform marriage by performing VARA POOJA, Naandi NISCHITHAMBOOLAM Etc.
They do not give or take girls from their own GOTHRA as we brahmins follow. Some of the Gothras to which they belong are given below :- (1) BHARDWAJA (2) KAUSIKA (3) SREEVATSA (4) KASHYAPA (5) KAUNDINYA (6) ATHRI (7) VASISHTA (8) GAUTHAMA etc. They perform Thrikala Sandhya Vandana like us
The death ceremony is also for 13 days like us and they also cremate the body.In short, they also follow all the rituals which we perform . It is unfortunate that they are not treated at par with all brahims although there are mention about them in our VEDAS, SHASTRAS etc.
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I had written about Sanketi Brahmin who are found in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu but mostly in Karnataka. They speak a dialect which is a mixture of Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam. Now I am giving about another Brahmin section of people who are smarthas
like us all, but considered lower in status among brahmins belonging to IYER and others. They are popularly known as GSBs or Gauda Saraswath Brahmin, I have also a doubt that
they derived the name from their GURU and founder , GAUDACHARYA and from the
the river Saraswathi since they came from thwe villages on the banks of this mythical river.
According to WIKIPEDIA :-
“The exact origin of the Saraswat Brahmins is difficult to ascertain. The Saraswat Brahmins are mentioned in the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and even in the Bhavisyottara Purana.Either they may have come from Central Asia to the Indian sub-continent through the Hindu-Kush mountains and the Khyber pass to south in about 2000-1500 B.C or they were Indigenous”
There are two different versions about their origin. According to one version they are the off-springs of Goddess SARASWATHY, the mother of Knowledge. The other one which is believed by many writers of History, is that they are Brahmins who came from villages which were on the banks of the mythical river, the Saraswathy. There are two types of Gauda Saraswath Brahmins Viz : followers of (1) GAUDACHARYA. (2) Followers of Madhwacharya.
Friends, I had written that Adi Shankara was the disciple of Govinndacharya whose Guru or Preceptor was Gaudacharya who taught monism or ADVAITHA to HH.Govindacharya who in turn taught HH. Adi Shankara. Although, we consider them inferior to us because they eat fish etc, they are the first followers of ADVAITHA preached by GAUDACHARYA, who is Adi Shankara’s preceptor’s preceptor., The first Mutt of Gaudacharya was constructed by these Gauda Saraswat Brahmins in Goa at KELOSHI which was destructed by portughese and hence they rebuilt it in another part of Goa called KAVALE MUTT which is considered as the ADI MUTT by Gauda Saraswath Brahmins. “They derived their name from either the river Saraswati or from their spiritual leader Great Sage Saraswat Muni who lived on the banks of the River Saraswati. These Brahmins were one of the Pancha Gowda Brahmin groups who lived north of the Vindhyas. They belonged to Smarta tradition and primarily worshiped the five deities: Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Surya and Ganesha.”However, when MADHWACHARYA while returning from North India to UDUPI came via GOA and converted few of then to MADHWA CULT.
These Brahmins can be seen in KERALA especially in erstwhile North Malabar, Koshikode, Eranakulam etc. At Eranakulam, they have built a temple called THIRUMALA VEKATESWARAR TEMPLE. There is a story about this Temple
“STORY OF THE COCHIN VENKATEWARA DEITY”
“Sri Vijayindra Tirtha of Kumbakonam mutt gave this magnificent idol of Lord Venkatewara to the GSB community at Cochin.
The story
During 15th Century AD, the Vijayanagar Kingdom was ruled by a pious king Saluva Narasimha, one of the popular royal dynasties of ancient India. This king was an ardent devotee of Lord Venkateswara of Tirupati and used to visit the temple by walking up the hill for worship. When the king became old, and incapable to walk, it is said that the king's prayers were answered by the Lord.
One day a sculptor appeared before him and agreed to make an idol of the Lord for his daily worship. The king gave the sculptor the required materials for making the idol and the sculptor shut himself up in a room. As he did not come out of the room even after a reasonably long period, the room was broken open only to see the idol of the Lord, the sculptor missing. It is believed that the Lord himself came as the sculptor and the idol is considered as Swayambhu or self born. The king built a temple for the idol and he was instructed by the Lord in his dreams to consecrate the idol during the auspicious time, when the heavenly drums dundubhi would be heard. As fate would have it, some crows happened to fly over the royal drums with twigs in their beaks and the twigs accidentally dropped on the drums producing a sound, which was mistaken for the auspicious hour indicated by the Lord. The idol was duely consecrated at that hour which was inauspicious.The grief stricken king was pacified by the Lord in his dreams that He would remain with him till his death, after which he would leave for a place by name Gosripuram. After the demise of the king, a great fire broke out in the kingdom and the idol was thrown into a dilapidated well. As the legend has it, Swami Vijayendra Thirtha of Sree Kumbhakonam Mutt who happened to traverse that region during one of his tours, is said to have been led by a serpent to the well wherein the idol of the Lord was deposited. The Swamiji recovered the idol from the well and started worshipping the idol along with his other idols. Swami Vijayendra Tirtha visited Cochin and performed Chaturmasa Vrita among the Gowda Saraswat Brahmin Community of Cochin. Upon seeing the radiance of the idol, the community of Cochin under the leadership of Sri Mala Pai, requested the idol from the Swamiji. The Swamiji agreed to hand over the idol in exchange for a heap of gold coins that would immerse the idol. All the gold coins brought in by the wealthy Mala Pai could cover only the body of the idol and not its tip. It was presumed that the Lord did not want to stay at cochin as a property of an individual. Only gold coins and ornaments brought in from the home of every community member could cover the tip of the idol. Kanakabishekam, a symbolic ritual of this immersion of the idol in gold is performed to the Lord even to this day during any special occasion.”
I feel these section of GAUD SARASWATHS belong to MADHWA tradition. Who are called Vaishnava Saraswats .
In Kerala these brahmins are called കൊങ്ങിണി ചെട്ടികള്. ( KONGINI CHETTIKAL ), although, they are also Brahmins like us.
The following are the MUTTS OF GAUDA SARSWATH BRAHMINS in which TWO are of Gauda Saraswat Brahmins belonging to MADHWA TRADITINS AND THE OTHER TWO OF ADVAITHA TRADITION respectively ::-
(1) SRI. KASHI MUTT of Varanasi (2) GOKARNA MUTT ( Both MADHWA SAMPRADAYA )
(3) SRI CHITRAPUR MUTT AND (4) SRI GAUDA PAADAACHAARYA MUTT both
ADVAITHA SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.
The subects in Gauda Saraswath Brahmins are VENSARKAR, ASGAONKAR,SHIRODKAR,GAVASKAR,TENDULKAR,WAGLE, RAJADYAKSHA MALLAYAS, SHENOYS, PAIS, KAMATHS, KINIS, NAYAK, BALIGAS, BHATTS, ACHARYAS, VAADYARS, PUROHITS, PRABHUS Etc.
Among Gauda Saraswath Brahmins, we see some wearing one NAMA in Red Sindhoor vertically and some others wearing Bhasma in parallel. three rows on their foreheads. . This must be because some adhered to their original SMARTHA TRADITION and others converted to MADHA TRADITION. Friends, among tamil Brahmins also we see in Palakkad some wearing one red Nama and others wearing Bhasma. In west Village of Pallassana most of the Brahmins wear GOPI CHANDANA on their forehead.
Friends, a peculiarity with Gauda Sarasath Brahmins is that some of them adopted their surnames as the village of origin and others their profession..
They all belong to one or the other Gothra as we all belong such as Bharadwaja, Kausika,
Srivatsa. Kaundinya, Kashapa, Atri, Vasishta, Viswamithra, Garga , Bhargava etc.
They also conduct UPANAYANAM like us which they call MUNJI ( Probably a KONKINI derivation for Upanayanam ) to boys when they attain 8 years of age. They have also KULADAIVAM like us.
The SMARTHA GAUDA SARASWATH BRAHMINS believe in MANGESH TEMPLE which is in Goa dedicated to Lord Shiva. I have gone to this old temple which they say is 400 years old. They, in general believe in Five deities in the form of Shiva, Vishnu, Durga, Surya and Ganapati. ( PANCHAYATHA}.like us ( आदित्य्मंबिकां विष्णुं गणनाथं महॆश्वरं ) SHIVA PANCHAYATHANA POOJA.
Just like we brahmins, they also perform marriage by performing VARA POOJA, Naandi NISCHITHAMBOOLAM Etc.
They do not give or take girls from their own GOTHRA as we brahmins follow. Some of the Gothras to which they belong are given below :- (1) BHARDWAJA (2) KAUSIKA (3) SREEVATSA (4) KASHYAPA (5) KAUNDINYA (6) ATHRI (7) VASISHTA (8) GAUTHAMA etc. They perform Thrikala Sandhya Vandana like us
The death ceremony is also for 13 days like us and they also cremate the body.In short, they also follow all the rituals which we perform . It is unfortunate that they are not treated at par with all brahims although there are mention about them in our VEDAS, SHASTRAS etc.
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THE RIVER SARASWATHI
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There are many legends about the mystic and legendary river The Saraswathi. We all revere Goddess Saraswathy as the mother of learning also. During KALASA POOJA when we perform archana on KALASA we always chant the names of Hindus’ sacred rivers thus : “ गंगयै नमः, गोदावर्रै नमः, सरस्वथ्त्है नमः नर्म्मदायै नमः , सिन्धवे नमः. We also chant “ गन्गे चा यमुने चैव गोदावरी सरस्वति ,नर्मदे सिन्धु कावेरी जलेस्मिन सन्निधिं कुरु “ Why ancient Hindus treated them as sacred is our survival itself was based on them. Our ancestors were living on the sides of the river beds from where our civilization started. when we read the Vedas we find many tantalizing descriptions of this mystic river . But, there is no one now who has seen it. When I went to KASI, I asked the PUROHIT there to tell me where was SARASWATHI RIVER for which, he pointed at a distance and said that the river had become ANTHERVAHINI and water from Sraswathi River could be seen in a well at that place . I felt like laughing at him. Even we were in doubts whether this river was flowing through Bharath starting from The HIMALYAS and flowing down and joining the Arabian Sea and making Rajasthan desert fertile, till we got a satellite image of the River which is given above. This discovery has helped many archaeological scientists who excavated about 1000 sites. The prehistoric town of KALIBANGAN is one of the sites in Rajasthan through which this mythological river was passing, as per the archaeological scientists, about 3000 years BC.In Rig Veda hymns in Book 10 – 75 our Indian Rivers have been described. There are 10 Rivers described in the Rig Veda thus “O Ganga, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Shutudri(Sutlej), Parushni (Iravati, Ravi), follow my praise! O Asikni (Chenab) Marudvridha, Vitasta (Jhelum), with the Arjikiya (Beas) and Sushoma (Sohan), listen!” again from the Wikipedia “Verses in Rig Veda 6-61 indicate that the Sarasvati river originated in the hills or mountains (giri), where she "burst with her strong waves the ridges of the hills (giri)". It is a matter of interpretation whether this refers only to the Himalayan foothills like the present-day Sarasvati (Sarsuti) river. “
In many texts of our Vedas, Upanishads etc. we can see the name of The River Saraswathy mentioned.
I am sure as we chant in Sankalpa about MERU PARVATHA this river was definitely flowing starting from the HIMALAYAS and through the present deserts of Rajastan making it fertile was flowing and reaching the Arabian Sea and ultimately flowing into it.
I request readers to read the passage about the “Re-discovery of River Sarasvati”
http://www/. Eshiusa.org /article Saraswathy etc and the efforts taken by our scientists to make the Rajasthan desert fertile.
Friends, in my opinion , the descriptions given in the Vedas, Puranas etrc. about our rivers, ,civilization, mountains etc are true and might have lost due to a big TSUNAMY or any other such big natural calamities.
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There are many legends about the mystic and legendary river The Saraswathi. We all revere Goddess Saraswathy as the mother of learning also. During KALASA POOJA when we perform archana on KALASA we always chant the names of Hindus’ sacred rivers thus : “ गंगयै नमः, गोदावर्रै नमः, सरस्वथ्त्है नमः नर्म्मदायै नमः , सिन्धवे नमः. We also chant “ गन्गे चा यमुने चैव गोदावरी सरस्वति ,नर्मदे सिन्धु कावेरी जलेस्मिन सन्निधिं कुरु “ Why ancient Hindus treated them as sacred is our survival itself was based on them. Our ancestors were living on the sides of the river beds from where our civilization started. when we read the Vedas we find many tantalizing descriptions of this mystic river . But, there is no one now who has seen it. When I went to KASI, I asked the PUROHIT there to tell me where was SARASWATHI RIVER for which, he pointed at a distance and said that the river had become ANTHERVAHINI and water from Sraswathi River could be seen in a well at that place . I felt like laughing at him. Even we were in doubts whether this river was flowing through Bharath starting from The HIMALYAS and flowing down and joining the Arabian Sea and making Rajasthan desert fertile, till we got a satellite image of the River which is given above. This discovery has helped many archaeological scientists who excavated about 1000 sites. The prehistoric town of KALIBANGAN is one of the sites in Rajasthan through which this mythological river was passing, as per the archaeological scientists, about 3000 years BC.In Rig Veda hymns in Book 10 – 75 our Indian Rivers have been described. There are 10 Rivers described in the Rig Veda thus “O Ganga, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Shutudri(Sutlej), Parushni (Iravati, Ravi), follow my praise! O Asikni (Chenab) Marudvridha, Vitasta (Jhelum), with the Arjikiya (Beas) and Sushoma (Sohan), listen!” again from the Wikipedia “Verses in Rig Veda 6-61 indicate that the Sarasvati river originated in the hills or mountains (giri), where she "burst with her strong waves the ridges of the hills (giri)". It is a matter of interpretation whether this refers only to the Himalayan foothills like the present-day Sarasvati (Sarsuti) river. “
In many texts of our Vedas, Upanishads etc. we can see the name of The River Saraswathy mentioned.
I am sure as we chant in Sankalpa about MERU PARVATHA this river was definitely flowing starting from the HIMALAYAS and through the present deserts of Rajastan making it fertile was flowing and reaching the Arabian Sea and ultimately flowing into it.
I request readers to read the passage about the “Re-discovery of River Sarasvati”
http://www/. Eshiusa.org /article Saraswathy etc and the efforts taken by our scientists to make the Rajasthan desert fertile.
Friends, in my opinion , the descriptions given in the Vedas, Puranas etrc. about our rivers, ,civilization, mountains etc are true and might have lost due to a big TSUNAMY or any other such big natural calamities.
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