n. "family enclosed by the hurdle", family, race, lineage, kin etc. (a polysyllabic fem. in ī-shortens this vowel before gotra-in compound [ exempli gratia, 'for example'brāhmaṇigotrā-,"a Brahman woman only by descent or name" ] )
n. (in grammar) the grandson and his descendants if no older offspring of the same ancestor than this grandson lives (if the son lives the grandson is called yuvan-)
n. a tribe, subdivision (in the Brahman caste 49 gotra-s are reckoned and supposed to be sprung from and named after celebrated teachers, as śāṇḍilya-, kaśyapa-, gautama-, bharad-vāja-, etc.)
n. cowshed; house=race or family; surname; name; (gr.) grandson or even later descendant (if the earlier genera tions from the common ancestor are extinct); patronymic suffix (gr.).
Occurs several times in the Rigveda in the account of the mythic exploits of Indra. Roth interprets the word as cowstall,’ while Geldner thinks ‘ herd ’ is meant. The latter sense seems to explain best the employment which the term shows in the later literature as denoting the £ family or £ clan,’ and which is found in the Chāndogya Upanisad. In the Grhya Sūtras stress is laid on the prohibition of marriage within a Gotra, or with a Sapinda of the mother of the bridegroom—that is to say, roughly, with agnates and cognates. Senart has emphasized this fact as a basis of caste, on the ground that marriage within a curia, phratria, or caste (Varna) was Indo-European, as was marriage outside the circle of agnates and cognates. But there is no evidence at all to prove that this practice was Indo-European, while in India the Satapatha expressly recognizes marriage within the third or fourth degree on either side. According to Sāyana, the Kānvas accepted marriage in the third degree, the Saurāstras only in the fourth, while the scholiast on the Vajrasūcī adds to the Kānvas the Andhras and the Dāksinātyas, and remarks that the Vājasaneyins forbade marriage with the daughter of the mother’s brother. All apparently allowed marriage with the daughter of a paternal uncle, which later was quite excluded. Change of Gotra was quite possible, as in the case of Sunah- śepa and Grtsamada, who, once an Añgirasa, became a Bhārgava.
noun (masculine neuter) (in Gr.) the grandson and his descendants if no older offspring of the same ancestor than this grandson lives (if the son lives the grandson is called yuvan) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a field (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a forest (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a genus (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a mountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a multitude (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a road (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a tribe (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an affix used for forming a patr. (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an umbrella or parasol (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
class (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
cloud (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
cow-pen (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
cow-shed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
family (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
hurdle (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
increase (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
kin (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
knowledge of probabilities (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
lineage (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name (in general) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
possession (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
protection or shelter for cows (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
race (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
species (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stable (in general) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stable for cattle (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
subdivision (in the Brāhman caste 49 Gotras are reckoned and supposed to be sprung from and named after celebrated teachers) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the family name (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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