gokulkr Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Some of them have ‘Saulin’ as their surname. (3) ‘Vāyadu’: Physician (Vaidya) or scholar. (4) Bhautul :- cf. Sanskrit ‘Bhāgavata’. They are musicians, particularly the singers of devotional songs. Some of them have ‘Bhautul’ as their surname. All these four classes have not been completely extinct. Formerly the position of ‘Gomvadā’ in Madurai was a hereditary post. Vāyadus (physicians and scholars) and Bhautuls (poet, singer, devotee, astrologer) are properly respected. Moreover the common man is known as ‘Kārestun’. (Gujarati word ‘Kārahtān’ means, active association in a secret plot by a group, and it is a Persian loan-word; both the words seem to have a verbal resemblance only). The Sanskrit word ‘Kri’ means work, and there from the word ‘Kārestun’ might have been evolved in the sense of persons of the working class. It may be a formation like (scanned image) . When somebody is to be boycotted, an assembly of all the classes including the ‘Kārestuns’ is called for. It is not easy to equalize their classification with that of the four castes (Chāturvanyam) as per Hindu tradition. These classes might have been derived from the hereditary occupations or hereditary family status. /images/graemlins/smile.gif Jai Shri Krishna /images/graemlins/smile.gif Om Shri Dhuupa Theerthaya Namaha /images/graemlins/smile.gif Om Shri Guru Raghavendraya Namaha /images/graemlins/smile.gif Om Namo Venkatesaya Namaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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