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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 ]
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.
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 text derives their name from the word Karashtra ("evil land"), as well as the words "donkey-bones" (khara-ashti), stating that they originated when some semen spilled on a heap of donkey bones. [16] The text goes on to describe the smaller Brahmin communities of south-western India, including their customs and history.
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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.
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 Brahmin, the goat and the three crooks III.5 I.13 121C III.4 IV.10; IV.11 The king cobra and the ants III.5 The cobra and the greed for the gold coins 285D [12] III.6 The golden bird III.7 The hunter and the dove's sacrifice III.4 III.8 The old merchant and his young wife III.6 121D III.9 I.6 The thief, the demon, and a Brahmin III.7 III.5 121E