Aboti Brahmin

The Aboti Brahmin are a Sakaldwipiya Brahmin community living in the western part of India. They are mainly an 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 . 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 they were noted to have been illiterate.^[3][4]

See also

• Rajpurohit
• Jangid

References

1. Prakash, Om (2005). Cultural History of India. New Age International. p. 313. ISBN 978-8-12241-587-2.
2. "Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka, Gujarat". Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
3. Trivedi, Harshad R. (1961). The Mers of Saurashtra: An Exposition of Their Social Structure and Organisation. Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. p. 17.
4. Gillow, John (2008). Indian textiles. Thames and Hudson. p. 221.

Further reading

• "Title unascertained". Journal of Social Research. 17. Council of Social and Cultural Research, Bihar. 1974.
• Trivedi, Harshad R. (1961). The Mers of Saurashtra: an exposition of their social structure and organisation. Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
• Parikh, R. D.; Jamindar, Rasesh, eds. (1981). Epigraphic Resources in Gujarat. Butala.
• Mukta, Parita (1994). Upholding the Common Life: The Community of Mirabai. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19563-115-9.
• Sudan, Anita (1989). A study of the Cahamana inscriptions of Rajasthan. Research Publishers.
• Ansari, Zainuddin Dawood; Mate, Madhukar Shripad (1966). Excavations at Dwarka, 1963. Deccan College Postgraduate & Research Institute.
• Majumdar, Asoke Kumar (1977). Concise History of Ancient India: Political theory, administration and economic life. Munshiram Manoharlal.

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