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Sankethis venerate a woman known as Nacharu, respectfully called Nacharamma. The appended -amma marks her status as the figurative mother of the Sankethi people, who led them out of Sengottai after mistreatment at the hands of the local Brahmin orthodoxy. Keshaviah refers to her as "... a solitary Brahmana woman leading some 700 or 800 Brahman ...
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.
The name Lingadahalli comes from the Lingayat community, the largest part of the population of the community. The VeeraShiva legend is a part of this area's culture, although Brahmins and the Koushika Sankethi group comprise a large part of the community. Sankethi is the major tribe among Brahmins.
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Their native language is Sankethi, which is a mixture of Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. [citation needed] Mattur is located by the Tunga River around 4 kilometres from Shivamogga and has long been known as a centre of learning for Sanskrit and Vedic studies.
Gaudapadacharya, a proponent of Advaita Vedanta, was born into a Brahmin family. His disciple, Adi Shankara, is credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism. [37] [38] [39] Historical records, state scholars, suggest that Brahmin varna was not limited to a particular status or priest and the teaching profession.
Chitra Shenoy is an Indian actress and producer in South Indian movies and television series. She has acted in more than 600 films predominately in Kannada and Malayalam.She is known as the 'young mother' in the Kannada film industry having portrayed the role of a mother to almost all top stars in Kannada.