Saryupareen Brahmin

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Saryupareen Brahmins also known as Sarvarya Brahmins are North Indian Brahmins who reside on the eastern plain of the Saryu River.^[1] These Brahmins are divided into three categories — Paitiha also known as Pankti Paavan meaning who sat in a row, Jatiha that is Jaati kul also known as Gangaparin and Tutiha that is Truti kul. The Paitihas are classified into 3 plus 13 homes. The home of 3 consists of disciples of three gotras: Garga, Gautam, and Shandilya; the Garga rishi and his disciples were the first to study Yajurveda in their ashrams. After that, Gautam rishi and Shandilya rishi also started to study Yajurveda and Samveda in their ashrams. The home of 3 is the most highly regarded amongst Saryupareen Brahmins. 13 other rishis learnt these and other branches of the Hindu vedas in their ashrams; and they are known as the home of 13. Similarly, Gangaparin are classified into Vashishtha, Krishnatreya, Kashyap and Bharadwaj gotras and the classification of Tutihas are Parashar, Vashishtha, Upmanyu, Sankriti, Agastya, Kaushik, etc. The family tree of Saryupareen Brahmins consists of ten branches Shukul, Mishra, Ojha, Dikshit, Dwivedi or Dubey, Pathak, Tripathi or Tiwari, Pandey, Chaturvedi and Upadhyay. The main gotra of Saryupareen Brahmins are 26. Out of these (1) three gotra i.e. 1.Garg, 2.Gautam, 3.Sandilya, (2) Das (ten) 1. Kaundilya, 2. Vashistha, 3. Udbahu, 4. Upmanyu, 5. Maunas, 6. Karna, 7. Vartatt, 8. Bhrigu, 9. Agastya, 10. Kaumasya and Terah i.e. 1. Parashar, 2. Galav, 3. Kasyap, 4. Kaushik, 5. Bhargav, 6. Savarnaya, 7. Atri, 8. Katyayan, 9. Angira, 10. Vatsa, 11. Shankritya, 12. Jamdagni, 13. Punah. Other than above three gotras 1. Krishanatri, 2. Ghritkausik, 3. Margeya are called mishrit (combined) gotra. However, written proof for 261 gotras are found in Vansavali compiled by Ahitagni Shri Yamuna Prasad Ram Tripathi Chaturmasyaji from where the above have been referred.