Kabiraj
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Kabiraj (Bengali: কবিরাজ, romanized: Kobiraj ; Assamese: কবিৰাজ; Odia: କବିରାଜ; Magahi: कबिराज) is an occupational title found in persons of Eastern Indian subcontinent. In olden days people traditionally practising Ayurveda were generally called kabi/kobi in eastern India. Many of them were attached to royal courts to treat kings and the royal family. As such they were given the title of Kabirāj/Kobirāj ("King Kabi", compare Rāj Vaidya used elsewhere). The descendants of such persons started using "Kabiraj" as a surname. This surname is often found in persons originating from Bangladesh and Indian States of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Orissa, ,[1][2] which are in the same cultural region of the subcontinent and shares common linguistic origins.