[Advaita-l] Fw :Pourakutsa gotra abhivadya (fwd) (Jaldhar H. Vyas)

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear friend,

Recently there was an article by one Dr. Balakrishna (if my memory
serves me right) explaining how it is related to the Genes.

Regards,
Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

On 8/19/08, M U <mu0487 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Oh learned ones!
>
> While discussing on "Gotras" would someone help me understand why a woman's gotra is told to be changed to her husband's gotra (and surname) after marriage? It is side-tracking the actual topic but I'm in anveshana and would really appreciate anyone's kind thoughts. This is not a feministic perspective...I'm just a curious learner.
>
> Pranams,
> Madhavi.
>
> --- On Tue, 8/19/08, advaita-l-request at lists.advaita-vedanta.org <advaita-l-request at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:24:07 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at braincells.com>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Fw :Pourakutsa gotra abhivadya (fwd)
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> Sirs,
>
> Thanks. But where did u get this information on Paurakutsa? any
> particular person from the Paurakutsa gotra ? Please let this writer know
> so that he can establish contact.
> The order may be different I think and it also matters. Please
> clarify.The order seems to be, repeat seems, I am not sure, "Angiras,
> paurakutsa, trasdasya"
>
> Meanwhile, to the best of this writer's knowledge, each gotra Pravara and
> Gotra name are unique.
>
> Also it is not necessary that the 5 or 3 pravaras to include the Root
> Rishi who is supposed to form the genesis of the Gotra. For instance,
>
> Shreevatsa : Bhargava, chawyvana, apnavana, owrva, jamadangni
>
> Shadmarshana : Angirasa, pourkutsa, trasatsya
>
> __/\__
> OM tat Sat
> tat tvam asi
>
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> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:18:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: sthanunathan Ramakrishnan <r_sthanu at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] :Pourakutsa gotra abhivadya
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> I belong to the Pourakutsa gotra (from TamilNadu). The rishis name that we use
> match with the list given by Jaldhar (although not in the same order. It goes as
> angirasa, trasadasyu and pourakutsa. Is that important ?).
>
> Regd, two different gotras having different set of rishis, Does this mean
> shaTamarshana and pourakutsa are just two names for the same gotra ?
>
> >
> > Message: 7
> > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:00:23 -0700
> > From: Vidyasankar Sundaresan
> > <svidyasankar at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Fw :Pourakutsa gotra abhivadya
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>  The set of 3 (or 5 or sometimes even 7) rishis for a gotra
> > is unique. No two gotra-s can share the same pravara.
> > However, some gotra-s have multiple names. The parukutsa
> > gotra is also called vishNuvRddha, which is the name found
> > in the nirNayasindhu and found in usage in the Maharashtra
> > region. There seems to be some geographical and/or sectarian
> > preference for using one or the other name for one's
> > gotra.
> >
> > Vidyasankar> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:28:07 +0530>
> > From: aparyap at gmail.com> To:
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> CC:
> > s.ramachandran at hdfcbank.com; s.ram at indiatimes.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Fw :Pourakutsa gotra abhivadya>
> > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Jaldhar H. Vyas>
> > <jaldhar_at_braincells.com> wrote:> > Anyway,
> > paurukutsa gotra has three pravaras: purukutsa, trAsadAsyu,
> > and> > angirasa.> > the pravara-s of the
> > SaThamarshaNa gotra are also the three RshIs> mentioned
> > above (A~NgIrasa, paurkutsa and trAsadasyu). Is it
> > possible> that two different gotras can have the same set
> > of RshIs or is it the> case that gotra names are
> > non-unique?> > thanks,> amudan.>
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