The Panchagrama Brahmins are a Brahmin community that follow the Smartha Sampradaya. They belong to the Indian state of Karnataka, and reside primarily...

various Brahmin communities, including Chitpavan Brahmins, Deshastha Brahmins, Havyaka Brahmins, Kota Brahmins, Panchagrama Brahmins, Shivalli Brahmins, Tuluva...

popular narrations in the Mahabharata. The story has only three characters—a brahmin sannyasi, a housewife and a vyadha (butcher). The story begins with a young...

also critiques the Gita for stating that those who are not kshatriyas or Brahmins are "born from sinful wombs". Unlike any other religious scripture, the...

narrator, recounts his personal history; the seduction of Satyavati by the Brahmin Parashar and his own birth; the origin of Dev Datta from the union of Shantanu...