The Aboti Brahmin are a Brahmin agricultural community who were recorded living in Rajasthan, India, around 1228 CE (1306 VS), where they were usually temple servants and had migrated from Dvaravati.[1] Today, they are found in the state of Gujarat and some at least continue to work as temple servants. They perform puja at the Dwarkadhish Temple in Dwarka during the Hindu festival of Janmashtami.[2]
In addition to their priestly role at Dwarka, they are a farming community, and in 1961 were noted to have been illiterate.[3][4]
See also
References
- ↑ Cultural History of India{{#if:Prakash|, Prakash}. New Age International(2005). ISBN 978-8-12241-587-2
- ↑ Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka, Gujarat. Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India.
- ↑ The Mers of Saurashtra: An Exposition of Their Social Structure and Organisation{{#if:Trivedi|, Trivedi}. Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(1961)
- ↑ Indian textiles{{#if:Gillow|, Gillow}. Thames and Hudson(2008)
Further reading
- Title unascertained. Journal of Social Research({Template:Year).
- The Mers of Saurashtra: an exposition of their social structure and organisation{{#if:Trivedi|, Trivedi}. Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(1961)
- Epigraphic Resources in Gujarat{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Butala(1981)
- Upholding the Common Life: The Community of Mirabai{{#if:Mukta|, Mukta}. Oxford University Press(1994). ISBN 978-0-19563-115-9
- A study of the Cahamana inscriptions of Rajasthan{{#if:Sudan|, Sudan}. Research Publishers(1989)
- Excavations at Dwarka, 1963{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Deccan College Postgraduate & Research Institute(1966)
- Concise History of Ancient India: Political theory, administration and economic life{{#if:Majumdar|, Majumdar}. Munshiram Manoharlal(1977)
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