• Kanyakubja Brahmins are an endogamous Brahmin community mainly found in northern India. They are classified as one of the Pancha Gauda Brahmin communities...
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  • Saryuparin Brahmins, also known as Sarvarya Brahmins, Sarjupar Brahmins or Saryupariya Brahmins, are a small subcaste of the Kanyakubja Brahmins native to...
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    Sakadwipi Kulin Brahmins trace their ancestry to five families of Kanyakubja Brahmins who migrated to Bengal. In the 11th century CE, after the decline...
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  • Bahun (redirect from Brahmin—Hill)
    बाहुन), also known as Hill Brahmins, are a Brahmin varna among the Khas of Nepal. They are Sub caste of the Kanyakubja Brahmin while their origins are from...
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    Gauda Brahmins are: Sarasvata Kanyakubja Gauda Utkala Maithila Subcastes of Gaur Brahmins are: Sanadhya Paliwal Subcastes of Kanyakubja Brahmins are: Jujhatiya...
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    Ravana (category Brahmins)
    by the Kanyakubja Brahmins of the Vidisha region, who see him as a savior and a sign of prosperity, claiming Ravana was also a Kanyakubja Brahmin. Thousands...
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  • solidified the supremacy of Kanyakubja Brahmin descendants like the Rajopadhyaya Brahmins over other priests like Maithil Brahmins. Karmacharyas and Joshis...
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    Utkala Brahmins, also known as Odia Brahmins, are a Brahmin community who belong to the state of Odisha, India. Utkala Brahmins are the historical caretakers...
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    Malla (1354–1395 A.D.) Jayasthithi Malla, with the aid of five Kānyakubja and Maithil Brahmins whom he invited from the Indian plains, divided the population...
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  • Mahārāja Kam Dév Singh Misra Urf Karam Singh (b.1438-1532) was a Kanyakubja Brahmin king and the ruler of the Pahargarh Estate, which mainly comprised...
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    Bairagi Brahmin or Vaishnav Bairagi or Vaishnav Brahmin is a Hindu caste. They are Hindu priests. They are sedentary rasik (temple dwelling or temple...
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  • Savarna (gotra) (category Brahmin gotras)
    IAST: sāvarṇa) or Savarni/Shavarna is a Brahmin gotra that comprises Kanyakubja Brahmins and Saryupareen Brahmins who are the descendants of sage Savarna...
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    Brahman are a Hindu Brahmin community, found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. The community is an offshoot of the Kanyakubja Brahmins. Gangaputra in...
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    communities in the state, including Brahmins. Kanyakubja Brahmins Manipuri Brahmins Assamese people Bengali Brahmins "639 Identifier Documentation: aho...
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  • Meghalaya and some are up to Bhutan and Myanmar. They belong to Kanyakubja Brahmin family of Pancha-Gauda Brahmans following Kaudilya/Kaudinya gotra...
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  • president of the national party. She is from a Brahmin family and is married into a Kanyakubja Brahmin family. She is the retired principal of Magadh...
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  • Among Bengali Brahmins Adhikary is one of the common surnames. Brahmin having their surname as Adhikary belongs to Kanyakubja Brahmins. But in Nepal,...
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    strong influences on Indian culture. Abhinavagupta was born in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family of scholars and mystics whose ancestors immigrated from Kannauj...
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  • called Newari Brahmin (Nepali: राजोपाध्याय) is the main division of Newar Brahmins in Nepal. The Rajopadhyayas claim to originate in Kanyakubja or modern...
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  • of Brahmin migrations as the Gaud Saraswats group has migrated from Trihotra in northern India as per the text. There is a reference to Kānyakubja in...
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    (1918–1937) and the Contemporary Period (1937–present). He was born in Kanyakubja Brahmin family on 5 May 1864 in Daulatpur village, now in Raebareli District...
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    He died in 2018 of age-related illness. Vajpayee was born into a Kanyakubja Brahmin family on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. His mother...
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    descent from Bhatta Narayana, who was a Kanyakubja Brahmin of the Sandilya Gotra. He was summoned from Kanyakubja (Kannauj) by Raja Adisura of Bengal, for...
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  • Anavil (redirect from Anavil Brahmin)
    influential role in politics. The Anavil claim themselves to be Kanyakubja Brahmins who migrated from Kannauj to Gujarat in the early medieval period...
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  • Awasthi (category Brahmin communities of Uttar Pradesh)
    Awasthi is a surname found among Kanyakubja Brahmins of Kannauj, deriving from the name of the Vedic sage Agastya. Notable people who bear it include:...
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    September 1924 at Dighori village of Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family. A direct disciple of Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswati...
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  • Mukherjee (category Brahmin communities)
    city of Kanyakubja (Kannauj). It is believed that in the 11th century CE, the ruler of Bengal, Adisara, summoned five Brahmins from Kanyakubja, who were...
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  • helper to Maratha king (Chatrapati) Sambhaji who reigned 1680–1689. A Kanyakubja Brahmin by birth, Kalash dev was an able administrator as well as a warrior...
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    Bindeshwari Dubey was the second of four sons born to a humble farming Kanyakubja Brahmin family in the village of Mahuaon, Bhojpur, Bihar. His father, Shiv...
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    Kannauj (redirect from Kanyakubja)
    Uttar Pradesh. The city's name is an evolved form of the classical name Kanyakubja. In Ancient Vedic period, it was famous city of Panchala Mahajanpada and...
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