Pandey Sanskrit Hindi: पाण्डेय is a surname of the Hindu Brahmins communities of Northern and Central India .
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Pandey's : Well known for the the Superior Castes in Brahmin's. Works of Pandey's :() are peace; self-harmony, austerity, and purity; loving-forgiveness and righteousness; vision and wisdom and faith along with Spiritualism.It is most likely that it is derived from the Sanskrit word paṇḍita (पण्डित (पाण्डेय) ), which refers to a 'learned man' or 'scholar'. The Sanskrit word Panditya means "Expertise.Pandey's are the superior Brahman's"
Those Brahmin families who specialized in all 4 Vedas came to be known as Chaturvedi (chatur means 4 in Sanskrit), those who specialized in 3 Vedas came to be known as Tiwari or Trivedi or Tripathi (tri- meaning 3 in Sanskrit), while Dwivedi specialized in 2 Vedas (dwi- meaning 2). Those who only studied the Veda but did not specialize in them came to be known as Pathak, i.e. the reader. Those who specialized in Upanishads were known as Upadhyaya. The name Pandey (meaning pundit) indicated Brahmins who specialized in all Vedas,Upnishad's plus Puranas.
Pandey's are also known as (superior)Sarvarya Brahmins or Saryupariya Brahmins,are North Indian Brahmins residing on the eastern plain of the Sarayu near Ayodhya. Saryupareen families Pandey's,Pathak's,Chaturvedi's and Dikshits were involved solely in the research and analysis of Vedas and other religious texts, performing yajnas and other religious practice.
The majority of people with the surname Pandey reside in the North Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, and . The surname is also found in states such as Punjab, Jharkhand.
It can be found outside of India in Guyana, Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Nepal (Acham, Kailali, Parbat etc.) and Suriname.
The surname is found predominantly among the Saryupareen Brahmins, Kanyakubja,Saraswat, Sakaldwipi Brahmin and other Brahmin communities.
The surname Pandey is similar to the surname "Pande" (पाण्डे pāṇḍe), which is used in Gujarat and North India. But in Nepal 'Pandey' is taken differently than 'Pande'. Pandey is used as their surname by pure Brahmans whereas Pande by Chhetriyas. In Maharashtra, several Brahmin families have names ending in "-pande", such as "Deshpande".In Orissa the Brahmins use the "surname Panda" पण्डI.In Gujarat "Pandya" and In South "Pandyans" "Pandians"all have ancestral roots to the same Rishi..Pandey.....
Panday or Ponday surname is used by some modern Brahmins who fled to Madras during the 1857 Mutiny. It is the newer spelling of the surname "Panday", which is found by emigrants in countries which did not adopt the new Indian spelling. An older spelling is Pandy, which is found in literature and the Wester dictionary in relation to the great mutiny. The caste was numerous in the British Indian army and played and important role in the Mutiny.