Badarayana

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Dear BhAgavatAs,

 

After reading a member's query on Gotrams and corresponding link provided by

Sh. V Sadagopan I seek few more clarifications on Gotrams.

 

We belong to Badarayana ( Sage VyAs is known as Badarayanar ) gotram and

very few people are known to us in this gotram ( so far I know only my

father, myself and my two paternal uncles and their sons and one or two

more relatives). For this gotram we follow the same pravaram as given for

Shatamarshana gotram and not as given in the list or in the lifco

publications (Aankirasa,Paarshadaswa, Raatitara). Since my grandfather

expired in my father's childhood age, pravarm was not known to my father. So

he followed elders advice in this regard. Irnonically during my father's

upanayanam vAdyar uttered his gotram's pravaram to complete the rituals as

there was no one to spell out the correct pravaram and my father continued

to follow that until few years back when he happened to read in a book

that shatamarshana gotram was branched out from Badarayana gotram during

Thathachar period. So my father decided to follow the original pravaram

AAnkirasa, Powrukutsa,Traasatasya) of Badarayana as taken by Shatamarshana

and till today we are following this.

 

Now we seek help from members to clarify on

 

what is the correct pravarm for Badarayana gotram?

Should we continue to follow the so called original Badarayana pravaram or

we should follow as given in the list.

 

Or members with this gotram can give us details of what they follow

 

Adiyen

 

Balaji K