Vaid (surname)
Vaid is a House Name (surname) that belongs to the Mohyal community. Mohyal Brahmins are Punjabi saraswat Brahmins who originally belonged to the Ghandhara region which is now known as Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Vaid family trace their heritage to the Vedic figure Dhanvantri[1]. Mohyal 'Warrior' Brahmins are the distinct Brahmins as they kept themselves away from priestly activities, practices like untouchability and didn't believe in other similar taboos. The Mohyal clan includes other House Names like Bali, Chibber, Lau, Dutt, Mohan and Bhimwal. The gotra (or clan) of Vaids is Bhardwaj. Mohyal Brahmins are also called Hussaini Brahmins.
Vaids also use Bakshi, Mehta or Raizada as courtesy title.[2][3] Like many Hindu Punjabis, the Moyhal clan fought to create the Sikh ethos and have been patrons of that community.[1] Notable Mohyal warriors include Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Sati Das were close friends and disciples of Guru Tegh Bahadur, who then died alongside him at the hands of an Islamist ruler[1]. The Gurus were very close to the Mohyals, resulting in Bhai Chaupa Chhiber becoming the care-taker and tutor of Guru Gobind Singh[4].
Vaid or Ved is a sanskrit word used for practitioner of Ayurveda medicine.[5]
Notable people
Notable people with the surname include:
- Aryan Vaid (born 1971), Indian model
- Bakshi Tirath Ram Vaid (1857–1924), British Indian Army officer
- Dawood Vaid, Indian educator
- Jyotsna Vaid, American psychologist
- Krishna Baldev Vaid, Hindi writer
- Madan Lal Vaid, British Indian Army officer
- Marcel Vaid, Swiss film composer
- Nakul Vaid
- Shesh Paul Vaid (born 1959), Indian police officer
- Smiti Vaid Gupta, an Indian America Scientist[6]
- Urvashi Vaid (born 1958), American activist and writer
References
- ^ a b c Bali, P.N. (1995). Mohyal History. Delhi: Dutta Press.
- ^ http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mohyal
- ^ "Hussaini Brahmins: A crossover creed | Lucknow News – Times of India".
- ^ Dutta, Anil (10 March 2011). "Mohyal Warriors". Mohyal Warriors. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Wujastyk, Dagmar; Smith, Frederick M. (9 September 2013). Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms. ISBN 9780791478165.
- ^ "Smiti Vaid Gupta".
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