Kannada Brahmins
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Kannada Brahmins are Brahmins whose mother-tongue is the Kannada language. Nearly all of them hail from the south Indian state of Karnataka, which was created in 1956 to unite areas having a Kannada-speaking majority. Kannada Brahmins have preserved the purest and most ancient form of Vedic Hinduism as well as Vedic Sanskrit. Chants and rituals are done with great accuracy.
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[edit] The three sects
Every south Indian Brahmin belongs by birth to one of three specific sects (schools of philosophy), being:
- the Smartha sect - adherents of the Advaita philosophy propounded by Sri Adi Shankaracharya.
- the Srivaishnava sect - adherents of the Vishishtadvaita philosophy propounded by Sri Ramanujacharya.
- the Madhwa sect - adherents of the Dvaita philosophy propounded by Sri Madhvacharya.
[edit] Prominent communities
Each of these sects encompasses several castes of Brahmins. These include:
[edit] Kannada Smartha Brahmins
- Babboor Kamme
- Ulucha Kamme
- Badaganadu
- Deshastha Brahmin
- Havyaka
- Hoysala Karnataka
- Kota Brahmin - Smartha sect brahmins from the central part of coastal Karnataka
- Moogooru Karnataka
- Kannada Mulukanadu
- Sankethi
- Devanga Karnataka
- Gaud Saraswat Brahmins
- Shivalli Brahmins
[edit] Kannada Srivaishnava Brahmins
[edit] Kannada Madhva Brahmins
- Madhva Brahmins
- Shivalli Madhva Brahmins
- Koteswara Magane Brahmins - Madhva brahmins from the central part of coastal Karnataka.
[edit] Eminent Kannada Brahmins
- Upendra Movie Actor and Film director
- N.R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys)
- Sudha Murty (Kannada writer and wife of Narayana Murthy)
- U.R.Rao (Former Chairman of ISRO)
- Bhimsen Joshi (Singer)
- Shakuntala Devi (Human computer fame)
- K. Shivaram Karanth (Writer)
- U.R.Anantha Murthy (Writer)
- Gururaj Deshpande (Sycamore networks)
- Deshpande (Industrialist)
- Puttanna Kanagal (Movie Director)
- Anil Kumble (Cricket)
- Javagal Srinath (Cricket)
- G.R. Vishwananth (Cricket)
- B.S. Chandrashekar (Cricket)
- E.A.S. Prasanna (Cricketer)
- Rahul Dravid (cricketer)
- Venkatesh Prasad (crickter)
- Sunil Joshi (cricketer)
- Ramakrishna Hegde (Former chief minister of Karnataka)
- R. Gundu Rao (Former chief minister of Karnataka)
- B. V. Karanth (Playwright artist)
- Ananth Kumar (BJP chief of karnataka)
- Vishnuvardhan (Kannada Films)
- Girish Kasaravalli (Kannada Films)
- C.V.L Shastri (Kannada Films)
- Hunsur Krishnamurthy (Kannada Film writer director)
- Samethanahalli Rama Rao (Kannada writer)
- T P Kailasam (Kannad Playwright)
[edit] See also
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