Telugu Migrant Brahmins - Traditions

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Pranams.

 

With my limited information on Telugu Brahmin migrants to Tamil nadu, this mail

is posted and observations may not be entirely correct.

 

Telugu Brahmins continue to maintain their culture and traditions even though

they migrated to Tamil Nadu hundreds of years back.

 

Some of them are.

 

Most of them but not necessarily all , continue to speak in Telugu in the family

( Not the Classic Telugu of Andhra ) but when they speak tamil one could mistake

them to be Tamilians.

 

During the Upanayana ceremony, the child styles Five Kudumi or Shika as against

a semicircular shika for a Tamilian. ( the five kudimi is similar to Brahmins of

udipi region )

 

A Telugu Brahmin would always chant the Abhivathaye Mantram in the Sandyopasana

after praying for the Welfare of Cows and brahmins whereas a Tamilian would

directly chant the mantra without any reference.

 

During the marriage after the first Mangalya Sutra is tied, a second Mangalya

sutra is also tied which is known as " Nagavalli" .

 

Also the Black beads as a part of Mangalya sutra is compulsory. ( but after

Mahaperiyaval's on the subject talk Many Tamilians also use these beads )

 

A tamil Brahmin lady wears a 9 Yards saree for any religious samskara in a

particular fashion, whereas a telugu brahmin lady wears only 7 yards of saree

in a peculiar way to suit their traditins.

 

May be the Telugu Brahmins migrants of this group Can explain more.

 

Ganapathy

 

 

"Ravisankar S. Mayavaram" <ravi wrote:

If I am not mistaken, shrI vaidyanAtha dIxita is from (or lived in)

thanjAvUr district and his kula devata was vaidyanAtha svAmi of vaidIshvaran

kOvil. He is the compiler/editor of the book called vaidyanAtha dIxitIyam.

He received land grant for Maharashtrian line of kings who ruled thanjAvur.

 

But there are conflicting information about him published in different

sources. For instance, in the preface of book "jAtaka pArijAta", which is

again by him, the translator notes that he hailed from andhra. That might

not be a conflict, because, close 30% of Tamil Nadu population spoke (or

speak) telugu -- such migrations took place in a large number for few

reasons (chief being Tamil Nadu was affected very little by muslim

invasion).

 

According to our family sources, we are descendants of Sri dIkShita. I do

not have access to the complete family tree to verify this. However, that is

the source of the information I have provided. I may be misinformed as well.

 

 

 

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Ganapathy --- Vijaya

 

" Jai Bhavani "