Viranollu and Viththanollu aregotras of Ganigas, who may not cut the wood-apple (Feronia elephantum).
The Missionary Metz [49] bears out the statement that the Toda babies were killed by suffocation.
The Raja was much pleased with the enterprising spirit of his son, conferred on him the title of Adhonda Chakra, wrote and permitted him to take with him such of the Vellala caste as chose to emigrate.
Sect marks are placed on the foreheads of the corpse and the widow.
She blesses barren women with children, and favours her devotees with big catches when they go out fishing.
To the mock funeral rites arrived a party of youths, as from a distant mand, and crying out U, hah, in shrill mimicry of their elders.
For example, members of the Badranollu and Balanollu gotrasmay not cut the tree Erythroxylon monogynum.
Members of certain othergotras do not cultivate turmeric, sugarcane, or the millet (Panicum miliare).
Members of the Kommi, Jammi, and Mushti gotras avoid using the kommi tree, Prosopis spicigera, and Strychnos Nux-vomica respectively.
In like manner, members of the Viranollu and Viththanollu gotras are forbidden to cut Feronia elephantum, and those of the Vedanollu gotra to cut Nyctanthes arbor-tristis.
Their guru is known as Dharmasivacharsvami in the Madras Presidency, and certaingotras (family names) are said to be common to the Ganigas and Nagartas, but they never eat together or intermarry.
For example, a Dolei man will not marry a Dolei girl, especially if their gotras are the same.
The Pichigunta vandlu, a class of mendicants who beg chiefly from Kapus and Gollas, manufacture pedigrees and gotras for these castes and the Kammas.
Kadle, Kalle, and Kadale meaning Bengal gram (Cicer arietinum) have been recorded as exogamous septs or gotras of Kurubas and Kurnis.
There is a good deal of confusion regarding the gotras in their connection with marriage.
He made certain regulations for the daily conduct of the Komatis, and made the 102 gotras submit to them.
Each of these gotras, it is said, has twenty-five subordinategotras attached to it.
Ken (red) and Kenja (red ant) have both been recorded as gotras of Kurni.
Then the heads of the 102 gotras assembled, with their wives, in the courtyard of the temple of Nagaresvaraswami, where Vasavambika was symbolically married to the god.
In her true form of Paramesvari, she blessed those gotras which had resolved to follow her, and announced that those who had fled would be nameless and without caste.
He who reads the order of these sixty-six gotras of the Kuruhina Settis will enter Sivaloka.
The names of the seventy-two houses of the caste are remembered, like the gotras of the Brahmans, and marriage between members of the same house are absolutely forbidden.
And the clans are again sub-divided into gotras or septs, which are mostly of totemistic origin, and retain their totemistic character to this day.
In [486] the Central Provinces the Khandaits have no subcastes, and only two gotras or clans, named after the Kachhap or tortoise and the Nagas or cobra respectively.
The number of gotras is smaller than that of the bargas, and some gotras, as the Nag or cobra, the tortoise and the pipal tree, are common to many bargas.
And further, as will be seen subsequently, the caste have no proper gotrasor exogamous sections, but in arranging their marriages they simply avoid persons having a common surname.
The Koltas have both family names or gotras and exogamous sections or bargas.
Their exogamous divisions or gotras are of the type called eponymous, being named after well-known Rishis or saints like those of the Brahmans.
Every Brahman belongs to one or other of the numerous gotrasmentioned in Pravara and Gotra Kandams.
Further, two people, whose gotras are the same, may marry if they have a different title.
A Podhano man may, for example, marry a Podhano girl, if theirgotras are different.
The purohit again proclaims the marriage, and the gotras and names of three generations are repeated.
At this stage, the gotras of the contracting couple must be pronounced distinctly, so as to ensure that they are not among the prohibited degrees.
Like other Oriya castes, the Alias have gotras, and the marriage rules based on titles and gotras are peculiar.
Balanollu and Badranollu are names of gotras of Ganigas, the members of which may not cut Erythroxylon monogynum.
The family priest calls out the names and gotras of those who have become related to the bride and bridegroom through their marriage.
They cannot intermarry with the Khasgis, or dine with them except in separate rows, and their womanfolk are not gosha; but they have Brahmanical gotras and Brahman purohits.
Similar gifts are also made first to two Nambudris of any gotra considered as representing the deities called Visvadvas, and then to two others of differentgotras representing the deceased ancestors or Pitris.
The best-known gotras are Kasyapa, Bhargava, Bharadvaga, Vasishta, and Kausika.
It is only those belonging to certain gotras who may perform yagams, and, by so doing, acquire the three personal distinctions already named.
Among the gotras returned by the Nagarthas are Kasyapa, Chandramauleswara, and Cholendra.
Certain gotras are said to be common to both castes, but they never eat together or intermarry.
The following are some of the gotras and exogamous septs of the Medaras:-- (a) Gotras.
In consequence of acts and behaviour, O ruler of men, many other Gotras came into existence in time.
The names of those Gotras have been due to the penances of those that have founded them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gotras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
