vedic caraNa institution

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

I came across a copper plate inscription in

Sanskrit (which is edited and translated into English

by Benjamin Lewis Rice in Epigraphia Carnatica)

documenting an endowment of a village called

Mudiyanur(cUDA-grAma)by a Bana dynasty King to some 25

Brahmanas. The date of which is 261 ShalIvAhana Shaka.

The inscription records the gotras and caraNas of

those Brahmanas and all of them belong to

sAmAnya-caraNa.

I am aware of Shaunaka's 'caraNa-vyUha' and

Ghurye's 'Two Brahmninical Institutions - Gotra and

Carana'. But there is no mention of 'sAmAnya-caraNa'.

Is there any other research done on the 'Vedic

Charana institution'?

I request the Indology community to put light on

this subject.

Sincerely,

R.Chandrashekar