The knot in the sacred thread is called as Brahma-Granthi. Granthi refers to a knot. This Brahma-Granthi contains a set of three knots each representing Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara. Shiva would be usually depicted in the pictures as wearing the Servant Vasuki as the sacred thread. Even we can see in the pictures of […]
Brahmins
Dharma of Brahmins
1. All Brahmins have to understand their Dharma and follow it to the best of their ability. 2. A Brahmin should not sleep at dawn and dusk 3. We should definitely do ‘Sandhya Vandhanam’ which is a daily ritual 4. Men should do rituals wearing a white dhothi and white upper cloth.They should not wear coloured cloth […]
Brahmins Gothras | 1 Pravara Gothras, 2 Pravara Gothras, 3 Pravara Gothas, 5 Pravara Gothras
Number of more than 400 Brahmin gothras along with pravara Rishis … Wikipedia on list of Gothras mentions that there are 46 Gothras among Brahmins. I once personally did a survey of Tamil Brahmin Gothras and found that most of the tamil Brahmins belong to 51 Gothras. So I was taken aback to see in a book in tamil published by Smt.Uma Hariharan, which has been approved by Kanchi Kamakoti mutt […]
Classification of Tamil Brahmins
Classification of Tamil Brahmins according to veda and Suthra they follow.. The Brahmins of Tamil Nadu can be classified by the Vedas that they follow . Again those people who follow a Veda are sub divided by the Grihya Suthra that they follow to do their rituals.There are no followers of Athavana Veda In Tamil […]
Tamil Smartha Brahmins Sub castes
Classification by Sub castes among Smartha Brahmins Iyers know that they are divided in to several sub castes.Once upon a time, each of these sub castes considered themselves as the most superior and did not marry from other subcastes. If I have left out some caste sub division or wrongly classified, please inform me so […]