How Many Gotra in Baniya?
Most Agarwals Follow the Vaishnava Denomination of Hinduism, Though Some Have Converted to Jainism. Agrawals Are Divided into Eighteen Exogamous Clans...
Most Agarwals follow the Vaishnava denomination of Hinduism, though some have converted to Jainism. Agrawals are divided into eighteen exogamous clans (gotras).
How many Gotras are there in baniya?
Their surnames include Aggarwal,Gupta, Lala, Seth, Vaish, Mahajan, Sahu and Sahukar. There are six subgroups among the Bania—the Bisa or Vaish Aggarwal, Dasa or Gata Aggarwal, Saralia, Saraogi or Jain, Maheshwari or Shaiva and Oswal.
What is the gotra of Gupta?
Therefore, it is likely that Dharana was the name of her paternal gotra, that is, the gotra of the Gupta family. The Dharana gotra has been interpreted in various ways: K. P. Jayaswal connected it to the Jat clans named Dhanri and Dharaniya.