Kanyakubja Brahmin
[[according to ramayana,ancient name of kanyakubj was mahodaya.this place was situated in the middle india.kanyakubj brahmins come in the panch gauda brahmin.kanyakubj brahmins are also called kannaujia brahmins.kanyakubj brahmins did not accept prasad from shri ram chandra due to subjet of ravana.shriram was the guity of brahmhatya. According to ramayana the ancient name of kanyakubj was mahodaya.this place was situated in the middle india.
kanyakubj brahmins mean brahmins of kannauj region.kanyakubj brahmins controlled vast empire of terrotary after declination of mauryas.big lanlords ayodhya naresh,raja machhedani,maharaja of old kanpur e.tc. are belong to kanyakubj brahmins,according to ayodhya abhilekh, the ruler of ayodhya was raja dhandev,who was belong to the family of pushyamitra shung.pushyamitra shung was a great king of patliputra and the time of pushyamitra shung kanyakubj brahmins spread all over india.because his kul was acharya,achraya is the synonums word of upadhyay.and he was belong to vidisha.kanyakubj brahmins also have a population in vidisha .I visited bihar and i found this surname upadhyay is only use by the kanyakubj brahmins.and kanyakubj brahmins have big population near the patna(danapur region,bhojpur,buxar,rohtas,kaimur,dehri aanson,sasaram).and they came here from ayodhya region and kannauj region.some writer says that pushyamitra shung was belong to ujjain and his gotra was kasyap,but malviya brahmin has no population in bihar and jharkhand.and these writer give this statement according to kalidas.kalidas was a respected person in the court of vikramaditya and he was not born on the time of pushyamitra shung.maharshi panini was belong to time of shung vansh and he said that his gotra was bhardwaj and he was the guru of maharsi patanjali(purohit of pushyamitra shung).after conclusion i found that shung vansh was kanyakubj brahmins of bhardwaj gotra.according to kashi prasad jaisawal he was belong to vidisha,vidisha also has good population of kanyakubj brahmins.some people consider that kanyakubj brahmins and saryuparin brahmins are same.kanyakubj brahmins are differ from saryuparin brahmins.kanyakubj brahmins have no connection with gonda,gorakhpur and bahraich and saryupain brahmins have no connection with kannauj.kanyakubj brahmins are belong to middle india and saryuparin brahmins are belong to east india.
region of kanyakubj brahmins are region between ayodhya and agra in uttar pradesh,madhyapradesh,chhatishgarh,and region of bhojpuri language of bihar and jharkhand.]]kanyakubj brahmins.wordpress.com