On 10-01-06 6:32 AM, "Benjamin Slade" <ingeardagum at YAHOO.CO.UK> wrote: >... Kashyapa ... gotra ... the textual attestations of/justifications for > this practice See Kane, P.V. History of Dharmasastra, 1941, vol. Ii, part I, p. 495 and 497. If you do not have access to this work, I will copy the relevant lines for you. ashok aklujkar