Talk:Kanyakubja Brahmin: Difference between revisions
→Kanyakubja Brahmins , Meat Eating Among: new section |
kanyakubj brahmins |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
|importance= |
|importance= |
||
}} |
}} |
||
==The Kanyakubja |
==The Kanyakubja Brahmins== |
||
There are two versions of the Kanyakubja story that I have heard. We can put up either one or both: |
There are two versions of the Kanyakubja story that I have heard. We can put up either one or both: |
||
1. When Rama returned to Ayodhya after the slaying of Ravana, who was a Brahmin himself, he had to perform yagnas to seek forgiveness for killing a Brahmin (Brahm-hatya). Upon the performance of the yagnas, the Brahmins who refused to grant forgiveness have been known as Kanyakubja Brahmins (and were supposedly known for their hot tempers). |
1. When Rama returned to Ayodhya after the slaying of Ravana, who was a Brahmin himself, he had to perform yagnas to seek forgiveness for killing a Brahmin (Brahm-hatya). Upon the performance of the yagnas, the Brahmins who refused to grant forgiveness have been known as Kanyakubja Brahmins (and were supposedly known for their hot tempers). |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
2. More recently, the Brahmins running away from Moghul persecution who crossed the Saryu (Sutlej?) river came to be known as Saryupaari Brahmins and most others came to be known as Kanyakubja. |
2. More recently, the Brahmins running away from Moghul persecution who crossed the Saryu (Sutlej?) river came to be known as Saryupaari Brahmins and most others came to be known as Kanyakubja. |
||
3. kanyakubj brahmins most probably descent from sage parshuram and bhardwaj.kanyakubj brahmins are also known as kannaujia brahmins.kannauj is that land who is protected by kanyakubj brahmins.kanyakubj brahmins also have a descented from pushyamitra shung,who was kanyakubj brahmins of bhardwaj gotra. |
|||
Also, it can be added that just as the Bhumihars, Iyers and Namboothiri (to name a few) claim to descend from sage Parshurama, Kanyakubja claim to descend from sage Bharadwaaj. [[User:Nshuks7|Nshuks7]] 23:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC) |
|||
== Kanyakubja Brahmins , Meat Eating Among == |
== Kanyakubja Brahmins , Meat Eating Among == |
||
Revision as of 05:58, 14 December 2009
 | India Unassessed | |||||||||
| ||||||||||
The Kanyakubja Brahmins
There are two versions of the Kanyakubja story that I have heard. We can put up either one or both: 1. When Rama returned to Ayodhya after the slaying of Ravana, who was a Brahmin himself, he had to perform yagnas to seek forgiveness for killing a Brahmin (Brahm-hatya). Upon the performance of the yagnas, the Brahmins who refused to grant forgiveness have been known as Kanyakubja Brahmins (and were supposedly known for their hot tempers).
2. More recently, the Brahmins running away from Moghul persecution who crossed the Saryu (Sutlej?) river came to be known as Saryupaari Brahmins and most others came to be known as Kanyakubja.
3. kanyakubj brahmins most probably descent from sage parshuram and bhardwaj.kanyakubj brahmins are also known as kannaujia brahmins.kannauj is that land who is protected by kanyakubj brahmins.kanyakubj brahmins also have a descented from pushyamitra shung,who was kanyakubj brahmins of bhardwaj gotra.
Kanyakubja Brahmins , Meat Eating Among
I have come across this quotation on meat eating among Kanyakubja Brahmins:
"While abstinence from animal food is considered elevating, its use is hardly degrading in view of the fact that the highest Brahmans, the Kanaujias, have no scruples in that direction. Their menu of course, is restricted chiefly to herbivorous animals, such as goat, sheep, deer, fish and a few birds like green pigeons &c. and these are considered to be suitable for consumption by the lower castes, without entailing any degradation. The consumption of other animals is considered somewhat degrading. These are ducks, fowls, pigs and beef, together with lizards, crocodiles and other edible carnivorous animals. In the Maratha country ducks and fowl are not looked upon as impure... In the northern districts the fowl is looked on with abhorrence and its mere touch sometimes entails the need for purification by a bath... [fish are called] 'Jal Semi' or water bean and is devoured by those orthodox Brahmans who would abjure even goat's flesh..." Man in India, March-June 1925, "Some notes about marriage, food, drink, and occupations of caste affecting social status in the central provinces", 64.
Will somebody either confirm or deny it? Ancient Infant (talk) 14:31, 3 March 2009 (UTC)