Brahmin gotras


The Brahmins are a community of Vedic Sanatan Sanskriti, who belong to the Brahmin varna.. Among other gotras, parashar is one of the important gotras. According to Hindu mythology there was arishi called Parasharya who was father of maharshree Ved vyas who has written many Hindu scriptures.

The main lineages

Brahmins are originally divided in eight gotra, but in time these subdivided into other ancestor sages in their genealogy, in addition to the founder of the gotra. At the same time as the member families of the gotra dispersed to different regions of India each regional group within the gotra came to have more in common with the members of other gotras in the region, culture affiliation and lifestyle, than the members of their own gotra living elsewhere in India. These trans-gotra affiliations led to the formation of a number of regional endogamous Brahmin Jatis.
According to Hindu culture, there are gotrakarins or eight rishis from whom the remaining 49 or more gotras are evolved or descended. They are Jamdagni, Gautama, Bharadwaja, Vishvamitra, Vasistha, Kashyapa, Shandilya, Savarna, Atri, and Agastya. The remaining gotras other than gotrakarins are said to be Pravaras.