• Brahacharanam is a sub-sect of the Iyer community of Tamil Brahmins. The word "Brahacharanam" is a corruption of the Sanskrit word Brhatcharanam (Sanskrit:...
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  • of India's Brahmin community. They mostly belonged to the Vadama and Brahacharanam sub-sects. Iyers were usually not recruited as the priest (shanthi)...
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    during the Indian independence movement. Subramaniya Siva was born in a Brahacharanam Iyer family at Batlagundu near Dindigul in erstwhile Madurai district...
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  • Mysore, Kingdom of Mysore (now Karnataka). He belonged to the Mangudi Brahacharanam subsect. His father, T Paramasiva Iyer, was a revenue collector in the...
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    village of Palamaneri on 7 February 1864. He belonged to the Palamaneri Brahacharanam who traced their descent from Krishnan Raman Brahmarayar, the commander-in-chief...
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  • village was established at about 1700 AD by a group of Kandaramanikkam Brahacharanam Brahmins who migrated from Aangarai Agraharam near Lalgudi and Anbil...
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  • century there was intense political rivalry between the Vadamas and the Brahacharanams for the domination of Brahmin villages called agraharams. Sociologist...
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    lineage) to Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman. He belonged to the Mangudi Brahacharanam subsect. He was educated at Kumbakonam and Madras and mastered in Hindu...
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  • belong to the Smarta (Shaivite) tradition, along with the Vadamas, Brahacharanams, Vadyamans/Madhyamans, and the Kanials/Kaniyalars. However, the Ashtasahasrams...
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