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The Sankethi people are a South Indian Smartha Brahmin [2] community located in Karnataka, India, mostly in villages in the south of the state. They speak a Dravidian language known as Sankethi , which is related to Tamil and Kannada . [ 3 ]
The Saurashtra people, or Saurashtrians, [2] [3] are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic Hindu Brahmin community of South India who speak the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan Gujarati language, and predominantly reside in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Sankethi (sometimes spelled Sanketi) is a South Dravidian language that is closely related to Kannada and Tamil.It is sometimes considered a dialect of Kannada or Tamil, but there are considerable differences that make it unintelligible to speakers of both languages.
Family names: Iyer, Sastri, Bhattar: Subdivisions: Vadama Brahacaraṇam Dīkṣitar Aṣṭasāhasram Śōḻiya: Related groups: Kerala Iyers Iyengars Vaidiki Brahmins Vaidiki Velanadu Havyaka Brahmin Hoysala Karnataka Brahmins Sthanika Brahmins Babburkamme
Ramanuja. The Iyengar community traces its philosophical origins to Nathamuni, the first Sri Vaishnava acharya, [6] who lived around 900 CE. He is traditionally believed to have collected the 4,000 works of Nammalvar and other alvars, [7] the poet-saints of Southern India who were intensely devoted to Vishnu on both an emotional and intellectual plane. [8]
The Maratha-era kaifiyats (bureaucratic records) of Deccan, which give an account of the society in the southern Maratha country, mention the following Brahmin communities as Pancha Dravida: [6] Andhra-Purva Desastha; Dravida Desastha; Karnataka Brahmins; Desastha; The kafiyats classify the Gurjara Brahmins as Pancha Gauda.
Brahmin (/ ˈ b r ɑː m ɪ n /; Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण, romanized: brāhmaṇa) is a varna within Hindu society. The other three varnas are the Kshatriya , Vaishya and Shudra .
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