Practicing Success
What did an examination of the names of women who married Satavahana rulers reveal about their gotra names? |
They adopted names from their husband's gotra. They retained names from their father's gotra. They used names from their mother's gotra. They created new gotra names for themselves. |
They retained names from their father's gotra. |
From around c. 1000 BCE onwards, one of the Brahmanical practices was the classification of people, especially Brahmanas, based on their "gotras." Each gotra was named after a Vedic seer, and individuals belonging to the same gotra were considered descendants of that seer. Notably, two significant rules concerning gotras were in place: First, women were expected to relinquish their father's gotra and adopt their husband's gotra after marriage. Second, individuals belonging to the same gotra were forbidden from marrying each other. |