Practicing Success
Which of the following is true about Gotras? |
The people (specially Brahmanas) were classified on the basis of Gotras. Each Gotras was named after a Vedic seer. All those who belonged to the same Gotras were regarded as his descendants. All of these |
All of these |
One Brahmanical practice, evident from c. 1000 BCE onwards, was to classify people (especially Brahmanas) in terms of gotras. Each gotra was named after a Vedic seer, and all those who belonged to the same gotra were regarded as his descendants. Two rules about gotra were particularly important: women were expected to give up their father’s gotra and adopt that of their husband on marriage and members of the same gotra could not marry. |