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Pujare, also known as Pujar, Pujara or Pujari, traditionally belonged to the priestly class of the Maratha community. They are the original inhabitants of Rameshwar in Devgad Taluka of Sindhudurg District in Maharashtra , India .
A Pujari or an Archaka is a Hindu temple priest. [1] [2] A Purohita or Pandit officiates and performs rituals and ceremonies, and is usually linked to a specific family or, historically, a dynasty. [3] Traditionally, priests have predominantly come from the Brahmin varna, whose male members are designated for the function in the Hindu texts. [4 ...
A pujari performing the puja rituals in Varanasi, India. Pūjari is a designation given to a Hindu temple priest who performs pūja. The word comes from the Sanskrit word "पूजा" meaning worship. They are responsible for performing temple rituals, including pūjā and aarti. Pujari are mainly drawn from the Hindu Brahmin and Billava [1 ...
His father, Ganesh Bhatt Navathe [2] (Abhisheki), was a married Karhade Brahmin who served as pujari at the famous Mangueshi Temple in Goa, and his mother was Ganesh's mistress, Yesubai, belonging to Gomantak Maratha Samaj. [1] Since Deenanath's parents were not married to each other, he did not inherit his father's Brahmin caste and surname. [3]
Haridwar, a site for Hindu pilgrimage, 1866 photograph.. Some notable places where Shraadhs are performed for the Pitrs are noted below. At these sites, it became customary for the family pandits (priest) to record each visit of the family, along with their gotra, family tree, marriages, and members present, grouped according to family and hometown.
Dhangar (shepherds) is a sub-caste of the Gadaria caste in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the Kuruba caste in Karnataka and the Bharwad caste in Gujarat. [47] [52] [48] [45] [46] Gadaria, Kuruba are classified as Other Backward Class in those respective states while Bharwad is classified as Scheduled Tribe in Gujarat, in India's system ...