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	gsb, gowda saraswath
		The five (Pancha) Gauda brahmin groups were: the Saraswats (from the banks of the Saraswathi river), Kaanyakubjas (from Kanauj), Gaudas (from the banks of the South Ganga or Bengal), Utkals (from Orissa) and the Maithilas (from Mithila in Bihar).
		That is how, Saraswat Brahmins were invited to settle down by the various rulers, perhaps beginning with the Shatavahanas to the Goa Kadambas, and at least in a few cases, even by the Vijayanagar rulers and their feudatories.
		The Saraswat Brahmins who were originally associated with Vedic rituals of sacrifices must have the founded the temples later or accepted the the various local gramadevatas as their Kuladevatas.
	www.srikumar.com /tdtemplecochin/gowda-saraswath-history.htm (9974 words)

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		The Saraswats Brahmans are mentioned in the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and even the Bhavisyottara Purana, deriving their lineage from the great sage Saraswat Muni who lived by the now extinct river Saraswati 8,000 years ago.
		The Saraswats of Goa and the West Coast are the Gauda Saraswats.
		The ancestors of the present Saraswats who migrated later were marked by their culture, language, religious and social practices prevailing in the south; and they must have called themselves 'Gauda Saraswats' to show that they were different from the southern group of Brahmans.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/amreshvashisht/8256.html (3265 words)

	Aryashaadi.com - Shri Saraswat Brahmin Samaj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Other saraswat brahmins such as those found along the western coast of India also claim to be originally from Kashmir and through migration have settled in various parts of India.
		In 740 A.D., at the request of the Saraswats of Gomantak, Swami Vivarananda of the Gaudapada tradition from Kashmir founded the Math at Kaushasthali and the whole Saraswat community in Goa and Konkan was the followers of this Math.
		Although the Saraswats were well respected as accountants, they were not readily recognized as true Brahmins by the local Brahmins (due to jealousy), accusing that the Saraswats have no spiritual guru in reality.
	saraswat.aryashaadi.com (1598 words)

	Mythology and Legend Goa
		This group of Brahmins were called Saraswats because of their origins from the banks of the River Saraswati, an ancient river that existed in Vedic times.
		The first group of Saraswat Brahmins who settled in the Goa area were called "Sastikars" because they settled in the eight villages of Sasti taluka.
		The earliest "Matha" of the Saraswat community was the "Kavle Math" founded in 740 AD and established at Kushasthali near Keloshi in Goa.
	www.clickgoa.com /history/political_history/mythology_legend_goa.html (418 words)

	Saraswat history
		In 740 A.D, at the request of the Saraswats of Gomantak, Swami Vivarananda of the Gaudapada tradition from Kashmir founded the Mutt at Kaushasthali and the whole Saraswat community in Goa and Konkan was the followers of this Mutt.
		The Kavale Mutt is the oldest of the Mutts of Saraswats.
		The saraswats who were poor and belonged to lower strata got converted to christianity and the rich had the power to resist conversion and stayed back in Goa.
	www.gsbkerala.com /gsbhistory.htm (7277 words)

	Konkani Heritage at Kamat's Potpourri -- The Saraswat Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first math of Saraswats dedicated to the memory of Goudapadacharya was established in Kaivalyapura or Kavale in Goa in the 8th century A.D. To this day, the swamis of Kavale math are known as Goudapadacharyas.
		Goud Saraswats were spread in all the big and small kingdoms of western coast under different dynasties right from 6th century A.D. Kadamba, Rashtrakuta, Hoysala, Chalukya Silahara and Vijayanagara kings had given very important posts to Saraswats.
		Saraswats were the first beneficiaries of English education introduced in 1840 A.D. Very soon they began to show their grit skill and efficiency in all the fields.
	www.kamat.com /kalranga/konkani/saraswats.htm (1142 words)

	Kalaangann.com-- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		However, the Saraswats are supposed to have migrated to Karnataka and Kerala earlier than this, for which the inscriptions at Shravana Belagola (ascribed to 983 A.D) and Achapura (24 February1042 A.D.) provide evidence.
		From the Indian classical based songs among the ‘Saraswats' and the ‘Goud Sraswats' to the western-based rhythms and melodies adopted by the Christians, Konkani is musically rich.
		Saraswats, Gowd Saraswats, Christians, Daivajna Brahmins, Vaniyas, Vaisya Vaniyas, Chaptekars, Kharvis, Kudmis, Siddis, Navayatis, Daldi (Dalji) Muslims, Maest, Moddvoll, Kumbar, Gabit, Lohar, Mahar, Render, etc. are the different Konkani speaking communities.
	www.kalaangann.com /konkani.htm (1094 words)

	Welcome to GSB Konkani
		Saraswat Brahmins, one of the five ancient Gowda Brahmins, the others being Kanyakubja, Maithili, Utkal and Gowda Brahmins, derived their name basically from the mythological river Saraswati that had flowed in the present Punjab and Rajasthan region, from the Himalayas to the western sea near Dwaraka in Gujarat.
		This in a nutshell is the mythological and historical background of the Gowda Saraswat Brahmins popularly known as GSBs.
		The young Saraswat also wanted to leave the place but the mother persuaded him to stay back and pursue his studies, and assured that she would provide him food and water.
	www.gsbkonkani.net /OurHistory.htm (2428 words)

	Goud Saraswat Brahmin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saraswats are people of Aryan descent who had settled down on the banks of the Saraswati River.
		The temples of the Saraswats were destroyed by the Portuguese; however, some courageous people carried the idols of their deities across the Agranashini river (Zuari) into the territory of the Sonde Rajas.
		The Gowd Saraswats have sub-communities such as the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmins, who were Saraswats from the villages of Kushasthali and Quellossim in Goa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goud_Saraswat_Brahmin (527 words)

	RSB Net - Home of Rajapur Saraswath Brahmins
		Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins also known as Balavalikar Saraswat Brahmins, though wellknown amongst the southern Indian Saraswats, evensince they settled in the coastal belt of South Kanara and Kasargod Districts, were little known to the entire world of Saraswats till recently.
		Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins, a small fraction of the large Saraswat community had not been in limelight till the middle of 19th century for many obvious reasons.
		A mini conference for the Ladies wing of Rajapur Saraswat Brahman Sangh, Bantakal was held in 1997 at Sri Narasimha Sabha Bhavan, Narasinge, Udupi.
	www.rsbnet.com /new/progress.html (2886 words)

	Mutts
		The Kavale Mutt is the oldest of the Mutts of Saraswats and belongs to the Smarta tradition.
		In 740 A.D, at the request of the Saraswats of Gomantak, Swami Vivarananda of the Gaudapada tradition from Kashmir founded the Mutt at Kaushasthali and the whole Saraswat community in Goa and Konkan became followers of this Mutt.
		Vira Vithala is the deity worshipped by the Swamis of the Mutt.
	www.gsbkerala.com /gsbmutt.htm (3215 words)

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		The Shaktas, among the Saraswats, worshipped Adishakti in the form of the linga.
		Most of the Saraswats, however, were then living at Tiswadi and Sasasti talukas and had to cross a river and travel a long distance to worship the deity.
		A peculiar feature of the Saraswat temples of Goa is the priority given there to the local Christian devotees who are said to flock to these temples.
	www.tourmyindia.com /states/goa/temples.html (1810 words)

	Temples in Goa, Goa Temples, Temples of Goa India, Temples of Goa, Goa Temples, Temples Tour in Goa, Temples Goa Tours, ...
		The Saraswat Hindu Temples in Goa are the few temples that had survived the attack of Portuguese.
		The Saraswats worshipped her in the form of the linga.
		The temple was built by the Saraswats at Bhanda-Vatika or Bhandiwade village in the Atrunja taluka of Goa.
	www.goa-beaches.com /goa-india/temples-in-goa.html (469 words)

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		Among the Saraswats, the Shakta sect worshipped Adishakti in the form of the linga.
		They believe that she is the Goddess of strength and power and rose during the samudra manthan or churning of the ocean by devas and rakshasas.
		Since the majority of the Saraswats were living at Tiswadi and Sasasti talukas, they had to cross a river and travel a long distance to come for the worship of the deity.
	www.tourismofgoa.com /goa-tourism/temples.html (1297 words)

	The Hindu : Distinct cuisine
		The Chitrapur Saraswats and Gouda Saraswats are the two branches.
		The Chitrapur Saraswats are traditionally vegetarian, but legend goes they took to eating fish when those living on the banks of the Saraswati centuries ago faced a famine.
		Inhabiting a coastal countryside, it is natural for the Saraswats to eat or use sea food - fish, prawns and crab and coconut and jackfruit.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2002/07/24/stories/2002072400340400.htm (391 words)

	Saraswat Brahmin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rajapur/Balawalikar Gaud Saraswat Brahmans, as they are known, belong to the "Pancha (five) Gauda Brahmana" groups or "Gaudadi Panchakas".
		Kuldev or kuldaivat are the deities which a set of families primarily worship.Their temples are built and maintained by these families, also called Mahajans (or Kulavis)of their respective temple.
		However, during early Portuguese persecution, many GSBs and Saraswats fled from Goa along with their Kuldevs to nearby states like Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saraswat (1853 words)

	Konkani recipes - another subcontinent forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Many of the Saraswats have their kul deva in Mhlasa, Mangeshi, Ramnathi, etc. That is the connection that they try to uphold very diligently.
		goan saraswat cooking has been featured...there are plenty of vegetarian recipes in the book and for the very strict followers,even recipes without onion and garlic.
		I've noticed that the Saraswat cooking is quite different in South and North Kanaras, Kerala, Goa and Maharastra - local cuisine seems to have influenced a lot and hence the difference...
	www.anothersubcontinent.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=2431&st=0 (2200 words)

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		According to the Puranas, the Saraswats derive their lineage from their founding father, the great sage Saraswat Muni who lived on the banks of the lost river Saraswati in North India six thousand years ago.
		Inheritors of ancient Vedic practices, the Saraswat have for centuries persistently preserved their traditions; facilitated largely by the community temples and maths which have proved to be the medium for social interaction.
		Vishwa Saraswat Sammelan'99 which shall take place from 16th to 19th December 1999 at Mangala Stadium Grounds in Mangalore is conceived to address this need for a cultural integration of Saraswat identity.
	www.aisco.org /sammelan.htm (741 words)

	Copy of guestbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		THE SARASWAT BRAHMIN-Displaced inhabitant of Saraswati The Saraswat Cultural and the Saraswat community derive its name from the river Saraswati on whose banks the members of this community are believed to have settled.
		The Saraswats have for centuries persistently preserved their traditions; faciliated largely by the community temples and maths which have proved to be the medium for social interaction Every Saraswat's family god is actually a mandal of five gods with the kuladevata in the centre.
		The Saraswat OF Konkan Kanara is a long narrow belt of land bounded on the north by Goa and Belgaum districts, on the west by Belgaum and Dharwar districts, Mysore and Coorg, on the south by Corg and Malabar districts and on the west by the Arabian Sea.
	www.w-z-o.org /archives.htm (16245 words)

	Chitrapur Saraswats
		The Saraswats are also an extremely close-knit lot, despite almost three sub-castes within the community.
		Saraswats are true-blue fish eaters and associate river Saraswati with their eating habits.
		Rasachandrika, a cookbook of Saraswat delicacies is a tribute to their love for food and is valuable addition to the Saraswat library; "In fact, every young bride is presented with a copy of the book, which was first " published in 1943 and is more popular than ever today;" enlightens Kamat.
	www.kanarasaraswat.org /csaraswats.htm (866 words)

	GOKURNA MATH
		It enjoyed the patronage of the Keladi rulers and the Vaishnava Saraswats of Goa and most of those from undivided Kanara were its followers.
		The Kashi Math is one of the two Vaishnava Maths of the saraswats with its head quarters at Varanasi or Kashi been upholding moral values too in a world steeped inmaterialism together with spiritual values.
		The 1st Guru, Parijananashram swamy was succeeded by Shankarasrama Swamy (1702-57) and his samadhi at Chitrapur near Shirali in Uttara Kannada became the nuclues of the new math.
	www.ramnathi.org /maths.htm (521 words)

	[Goanet]The controversial VCD on Goa
		Their forefathers would not have gone through the Inquisition while the some of the Saraswats licked the boots and rose up the social and economic ladder.
		Otherwise the Saraswat community should have disowned Admiral Timmaji and Mhal Pai Vernekar who traded with Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque for almost half a century then or the Dempos, Salgaocars, Timblos and their like did then and cling to Portuguese concessions and titles to this day.
		If there is courage and patriotism in the Saraswat Community as they claim, let them ask their ilk to surrender the mining concessions of the Estado da India Portuguesa and operate the iron, manganese and ferro-manganese as per the lease agreements of the Indian Union.
	www.mail-archive.com /goanet@goanet.org/msg21832.html (619 words)

	[Goanet] Re: “UDAY BHEMBRE's ROAD MAP TO HELL” by Godfrey Gonsalves -
		It is not possible for any and every Saraswat to be eligible for election to the Mahajani of a particular Saraswat-administered temple; he must belong to one of the Mahajan families of THAT temple.
		The Saraswats, on the other hand contend that those temples having been built by their forefathers, only they have a right to administer them.
		Shivdas and his group say that many of the temples were originally built by the non-Saraswat “kullavis” but the Saraswats used their influence with the Portuguese to fraudulently register them as their own.
	www.mail-archive.com /goanet@goanet.org/msg32822.html (787 words)

	Kontributed Articles ......
		Then the leaders of Saraswats of South Kanara and Heads of the Institutions met and decided to hold the First Vishwa Saraswat Sammelan at Mangalore and we, in Mangalore prepared a Working Paper in which the broad objectives and working plan were finalized and duly adopted by the Central Committee of Mumbai.
		Saraswats from Kashmir (Kashmiri Pandiths), Delhi, Panjab and Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarath, Madhya Bharath, Maharastra, Kerala, Bengal and all parts of Karnataka had assembled in large numbers.
		The Saraswat Darshan section was not up to our expectations though Sri Y. Ram Kishore Rao and Sri Pradeep Karnad though they had tried their best to make it on an International level, foiling since four months touring various places in Karnataka.
	www.ekhabbar.com /volxxiii1/kontri.htm (5470 words)

	Varun Voyages - Making your Travel to India most beneficial - Specialize in tours to Rajasthan , GOA , Himalaya's and ...
		The first wave of Brahmins to settle in Goa, were called Saraswats because of their origins from the banks of the River Saraswati, an ancient river that existed in Vedic times.
		There is no concrete proof to determine the exact date of the arrival of Saraswats or Parashurama in the area, nor is it conclusively proved that Saraswats or other Aryans were the first to arrive in Konkan.
		Even if the legends are considered as only myths, the residence of Saraswat Brahmins in Goa since ancient times along with their family deities is an undeniable fact.
	www.varunvoyages.com /adv10.asp (815 words)

	The Konkani Fogis and the Blinkered Eejuts
		Besides, it is impossible that the tribals (who were treated as outcastes by the Aryans) had any access to Devanagri, (the script of the Aryans) before the Aryan Saraswats came and took over their land.
		TGF believes that the Saraswats not only displaced the Kunbis and Koknas in and from Goa and horrendously discriminated against them via the caste system [2], they also usurped the name of the language Konkani while placing their own language in situ.
		TGF believes that the artificial Sanskritization of Konkani along with the simultaneous decapitation of Lusitanian words which had become a part of the Konkani vocabulary, is the reason why almost ALL older Catholic Goans still do not follow the liturgy of the Church.
	www.colaco.net /1/KonkaniFogis.htm (2439 words)

	About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Under the banner of AISCO a number of culture related initiatives have been undertaken which include one Vishwa Saraswat Sammelan at Mangalore in 1999 (in which at least 15,000 participants from all over the world participated), five All India Saraswat Conventions, various performing art functions, publications of books and periodicals, etc.
		The problem of finding suitable match for eligible boys and girls is becoming more acute by the day due to increasing dispersal of Saraswats across the nation and the globe.
		Also, when one looks at the choice offered by five or six major, existing matchmaking web sites, they predominantly cater to all sections of the society and are not focused for Saraswats as such.
	www.saraswatmatch.com /pages/AboutUs.asp (388 words)

	Saraswat Brahmins.-Be unite-largest community - www.ezboard.com
		It is also believed that this community migrated to all directions till it came to settle in the Punjab, Sindh,coastal towns of Karnataka,Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and it is from these towns that most Saraswats derive their surnames, the community resides.
		The Saraswats Brahmans are mentioned in the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and even the Bhavisyottara Purana, deriving their lineage from the great sage Saraswat Muni who lived by the now extinct river Saraswati 6,000 years ago.
		The flow of the saraswati was in the middle of the Bharatvarsha, comprising present day Haryana, Punjab, Present west and south Pakistan, Rajasthsn, Uttarpradesh and Gujrat.
	p196.ezboard.com /fyoga84291frm7.showPrevMessage?topicID=121.topic (2761 words)

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