INDOLOGY Digest - 10 May 1999 to 11 May 1999 (#1999-55)

[Lakshmi Srinivas]

--- Swaminathan Madhuresan <smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM>
wrote:
> --- Balaji Hebbar <bhebbar at EROLS.COM> wrote:
>

> Around Gorur on the Hemavati river banks, there are
> 16 gramas,
> called ashTagrAma. A friend from Gorur tells me that
> most iyengars fro those 16 grAmas do not belong to
> the three groups you mention.

It appears that in addition to the 3 groups as above
viz., HemmigeyAr, MandayattAr, Hebbar, there are other
groups who call themselves TirumalaiyAr, BhattarAchAr,
MarudUrAr, Prativadi BhayankarattAr, SomAsiAnDAr,
NallAn ChakravartiyAr, embAr, IcchambADiyAr,
kILanATTAr, ATTan kUTTattAr etc.. Some of these are
endogamous while some others e.g., the NallAn
ChakravartiyAr, are exogamous by definition.

I'm sure one can get a lot more from a source book
such as The Mysore Tribes and Castes.

Thanks and Warm Regards.




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