In Tuluva nadu, the most common gotras you will find are Vishwamitra & Angirasa, so much that sagotra may be very hard to avoid nowadays.
Vishwamitra has two pravaras
Vaishwamitra, Oudala, Daivarata
Vaishwamitra, Madhuchandasa, Dhananjaya
Angirasa has three pravaras, some folks may use Gautama, Bhardwaja and Harita as gotra names.
Angirasa, Aayasyasa-Gautama
Angirasa, Barhaspatya, Bharadwaja
Angirasa, Ambarisha, Yuvanashva
I am not sure if intermarriage between these pravaras is possible, I remember reading it is possible amongst the Angirasas.
The next gotra in the order of popularity maybe Bhargava.
But the high prevalance of Vishwamitra and Angirasa does baffle me - is there an explanation. Another observation is that in Tulunadu & Haivanadu - we do not find gotra names such as Kaushika, Koundinya, Shandilya, Parashara, Gargya and so on. Some of these such as Kaushika, Koundinya are related to Vishwamitra, Vashishta (the pravara for Vashista mentions Vashista), Kaushikas use a different pravara from Vishwamitra which is something I dont get. Nevertheless you dont find the variety of Gotras in Tulunadu that you find up the ghats.
Vishwamitra has two pravaras
Vaishwamitra, Oudala, Daivarata
Vaishwamitra, Madhuchandasa, Dhananjaya
Angirasa has three pravaras, some folks may use Gautama, Bhardwaja and Harita as gotra names.
Angirasa, Aayasyasa-Gautama
Angirasa, Barhaspatya, Bharadwaja
Angirasa, Ambarisha, Yuvanashva
I am not sure if intermarriage between these pravaras is possible, I remember reading it is possible amongst the Angirasas.
The next gotra in the order of popularity maybe Bhargava.
But the high prevalance of Vishwamitra and Angirasa does baffle me - is there an explanation. Another observation is that in Tulunadu & Haivanadu - we do not find gotra names such as Kaushika, Koundinya, Shandilya, Parashara, Gargya and so on. Some of these such as Kaushika, Koundinya are related to Vishwamitra, Vashishta (the pravara for Vashista mentions Vashista), Kaushikas use a different pravara from Vishwamitra which is something I dont get. Nevertheless you dont find the variety of Gotras in Tulunadu that you find up the ghats.
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