Munirajasa

మునిరాజస attested community kula

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

Munirajasa

Meditating place

Jajanuutham

Couple who entered the fire

Sarasa Shreshti-Saraswathi

Favoured lord

Sarveswaran

Offering

Anna Dhanam

Traditionally avoided

Thamarai(Lotus)

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.

PADMASHRESHTAPADMASISHTAKULAPADMASISHTASA

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.