Garkyasa

గార్క్యస attested vedic rishi

One of the 102 gothras of the Arya Vysya community — one for each couple who entered the fire with Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari at Penugonda.

Root rishi / lineage

Garkyasa

Meditating place

Pampa Theeram

Couple who entered the fire

not given in the sources

Favoured lord

Parvatheshwaran

Offering

Jack Fruit

Traditionally avoided

Pahal(Bitter Gourd)

Sanketha names

The community's own kula house-names for this lineage. Thurston recorded them in 1909 as sanketa namamulu — "secret names given by Kanyakamma" — and per the Kanyaka Purana they exist precisely so a family can tell whether a proposed match shares its lineage.

PAIPIKULAPRAHEENIKULAPRAHEENUKULA

On marriage. A marriage is not made between two people of the same gothra: the tradition treats everyone within one gothra as descended from the same lineage, so a match is sought outside it. Families check the sanketha name as well as the gothra, since two differently-named houses can belong to the same lineage.

Families on this site

No family on this site has recorded this gothra yet. A family administrator can set it from the family's own page.

Source. ఆర్య వైశ్య గోత్రములు (Arya Vysya Gothras) — vaasavi.net · the count of 102 is attested independently by Thurston (1909), the Census of India 1891 and 1901, the Kanyaka Purana and the Penugonda temple board.