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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 ]
A Kannada-language text with the same title contains the chapter Grāmapaddhati, which describes Brahmin family names and villages. [18] Y. C. Bhanumati notes that the Kannada version has no similarities with Sanskrit text, and theorizes that the original Sahyadri-khanda must have been a different, now-lost work. [19]
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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.
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.
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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 .
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.