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The '''Aboti Brahmin''' are a [[Brahmin]] agricultural community who were recorded living in [[Rajasthan]], India, around 1228 CE (1306 [[Vikram Samvat|VS]]), where they were usually temple servants and had migrated from [[Dvārakā|Dvaravati]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Cultural History of India |first=Om |last=Prakash |publisher=New Age International |year=2005 |isbn=978-8-12241-587-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzpYb5UOeiwC&pg=PA313 |page=313}}</ref> Today, they are found in the state of [[Gujarat]] and some at least continue to work as temple servants. They perform [[puja (Hinduism)|puja]] at the [[Dwarkadheesh temple, Gujrat|Dwarkadhish Temple]] in [[Dwarka]] during the [[Hindu]] festival of [[Krishna Janmashtami|Janmashtami]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka, Gujarat |publisher=Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India |url=http://www.krishnajanmashtami.com/dwarkadhish-temple-gujarat.html |accessdate=2015-04-12}}</ref><br />
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In addition to their priestly role at Dwarka, they are a farming community, and in 1961 were noted to have been [[Literacy|illiterate]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Trivedi|first=Harshad R.|title=The Mers of Saurashtra: An Exposition of Their Social Structure and Organisation|publisher=Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda|year=1961|pages=17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gillow|first=John|title=Indian textiles|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=2008|pages=221}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Rajpurohit]]<br />
*[[Jangid]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
*{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JuUKAAAAIAAJ |journal=Journal of Social Research |volume=17 |publisher=Council of Social and Cultural Research, Bihar |year=1974 |title=Title unascertained}}<!-- around pp 50-70 --><br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VB8YAAAAIAAJ |title=The Mers of Saurashtra: an exposition of their social structure and organisation |first=Harshad R. |last=Trivedi |publisher=Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda |year=1961}}<br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpseAAAAMAAJ |title=Epigraphic Resources in Gujarat |editor1-first=R. D. |editor1-last=Parikh |editor2-first=Rasesh |editor2-last=Jamindar |publisher=Butala |year=1981}}<br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlVuAAAAMAAJ |title=Upholding the Common Life: The Community of Mirabai |first=Parita |last=Mukta |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-19563-115-9}}<br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7VHAAAAMAAJ |title=A study of the Cahamana inscriptions of Rajasthan |first=Anita |last=Sudan |publisher=Research Publishers |year=1989}}<br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2pXAAAAMAAJ |title=Excavations at Dwarka, 1963 |first1=Zainuddin Dawood |last1=Ansari |first2=Madhukar Shripad |last2=Mate |publisher=Deccan College Postgraduate & Research Institute |year=1966}}<br />
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bs45AQAAIAAJ |title=Concise History of Ancient India: Political theory, administration and economic life |first=Asoke Kumar |last=Majumdar |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal |year=1977}}<br />
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