The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) [7] are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group [8] from the Kashmir Valley, [9][10] located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

In Kalhana's Rajatarangini (12th century CE), the Saraswats are mentioned as one of the five Pancha Gauda Brahmin communities residing to the north of the Vindhyas. [3] According to M. K. Kaw (2001), Kashmiri Pandits, a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community hold the highest social status in Kashmir. [24]

Among these people, the Brahmin groups, who lived in the valley of Kashmir is known as Kashmiri Pandits. Their limited members and partial topographical seclusion from whatever is left of the subcontinent developed through thousands of years some extraordinary rudiments of socio-religious behaviour.

2013年7月1日 · Some of his infolmants claim that Kashmiri Brahmanas are distinct from others linking their caste to the goddess Sarasvati, while according to Mr Madan, Sarasvats as a whole derive their name from the river Sarasvati.

The Kashmiri Brahmins, usually called Pait s, constitute one single group, the Kåśmīra Bråhmaa s, without any real subdivisions. They form, according to Bühler,2 the first Indologist to visit the Valley, one unified community: they 'interdine' (annavyavahåra) and they also teach each other (vidyåvyavahåra, vidyåsambandha).

1996年9月8日 · According to accepted traditions in the rest of the country, Kashmiri Brahmins are believed to be a branch of the Saraswat Brahmins who were so called because they were believed to have settled along the course of a semi-mythical river of North India called Saraswati, and named after the Vedic goddess of learning, soon after the Vedic Aryans ...

2010年11月30日 · Kashmiri Pandit (Kashmiri:कशढ़मीरी पणढ़डित / ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰੀ ਪੰਡਿਤ ) refers to a person who belongs to a sect of Hindu Brahmins originating from Kashmir, a mountainous region in South Asia. Kashmiri Brahmins came to Guru Tegh Bahadar at Anandpur in May 1675 to seek the assistance and protection against atrocities of the Mughal leader, Aurangzeb.

2022年6月1日 · These Brahmins, popularly called Kashmiri Pandits, form a distinct class of their own and were considered to be the perfect specimens of the ancient Vedic settlers in the Valley. Areawise, Jammu, and Kashmir is the second largest state in the Republic of India.

The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a Shaivite Saraswat Brahmin community from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. They are the only remaining Hindu community native to the Kashmir Valley .

The Kashmiri Brahmin Community, popularly called Kashmiri Pundits, form a distinct class of their own and are considered to be the purest specimens of the ancient Aryan settlers in the Valley. They are a charming, highly cultured people.