Melukote Sthanikas

An article on Melukote Sthanikas is available below

https://www.pressreader.com/india/the-hindu/20170106/282926680072022

There were four sthanikas- Tiruvanatapura dasar (Vasista gotra, Jaiminisutra, Samaveda sakha); Malakara dasar (Koundinya gotra, Bodhayanasutra, Yajurveda sakha); Tirukkurungudi Dasar (Vasistha gotra, Jaimini sutra, Samaveda Sakha); and Yatiraja Dasar of Elayattangudi (Bhargava gotra, Jaimini sutra, Samaveda Sakha).

Do the Chozhiyas still recite in the Jaminiya fashion ? Or have adopted the Kauthuma recitation style ?

The sthanikas seem to be chozhiya vaishnavas based on their sutras - Bodhayana and Jaimini

There is also a 5th Chozhiya

Sadagopa Dasar (Bharadwaja gotra, Jaimini sutra, Sama Sakha) was in charge of vahanas

The non-chozhiya (Apastamba, Drahyayana)  have different functions (The Araiyar is wrongly mentioned to belong to Jaimini Sutra)

 Tiruvali Annan (Sadamarshana gotra, Apastambha sutra, Yajurveda Sakha) was to carry out orders of the Jeer of Yatiraja matha. Poretru Nayanar from Anbil (Maudgalya gotra, Drahyayana sutra, Sama Sakha) was in charge of gold and silver vessels belonging to the temple and also temple accounts. Tirunarayana Perumal Araiyar (Vadhula gotra, Jaimini sutra, Yajurveda Sakha) was in charge of Astothara and Sahasranama stotra reciting and also musical rendering of pasurams, on the lines of the vinnappam seivar of Srirangam

Interestingly the Chief priest is from the Kanva Shakha (Same as Srirangam ?)

Mahrashtra Brahmans in Varanasi

This article provides some sense of the scholarship of Maharashtra Brahmans who had migrated to Varanasi. The eminent families were Bhattas, Devas, Sesas, Puntambkars, Caturdharas, Bharadavajas atleast the Bhattas and the Puntambekars belonged to the Desastha Rigvedi section. That was a long time ago, religious and philosophic scholarship declined subsequently, the chitpavan and karhada sects took the the leadership in subsequent times.

https://kashcidvipashcit.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/speaking-from-sivas-temple-banaras-scholar-households-and-the-brahman-ecumene-of-mughal-india-rosalind-ohanlon/