Kanyakubja Brahmin

Kanyakubja Brahmins are an endogamous[5] Brahmin community mainly found in northern India. They are classified as one of the Pancha Gauda Brahmin communities native to the north of the Vindhyas.[6]

Kanyakubja Brahmin
Regions with significant populations
Uttar Pradesh • Madhya Pradesh • West Bengal[1][2][3] • Chhattisgarh • Jharkhand • Bihar • Assam[1] • Tripura
Languages
Hindi • Bhojpuri • Bengali[2][4] • other Indo-Aryan languages
Religion
Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
Saraswat Brahmins • Gauda Brahmins • Maithil Brahmins • Utkala Brahmins

The Bhavishya-Purana (Pratisarga-parvan, Khanda 1, Adhyayas 6 and 7) narrates the involvement of Kanyakubjas in starting new order of Kshatriyas i.e. Agnivanshis to Save Vedic religion  :---When the religion of Buddha arose and the Vedic Dharma began to decline a Brahmana of Kanyakubja (Kanauj) performed a big Havana on the mount of Abu, and as the result thereof there emerged four figures from the Agni-kunda (fountain of fire), viz, Sama- vedin Paramara, Yajurvedin Chahumana (Chauhan), Trivedin Sukla, and Atharvavedin Parihara. [7][8]

Social status

In states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, they are considered the highest class of Brahmins.[9][10]

Notable people

References
  1. Bengali Brahmins
  2. Kulin Brahmin
  3. Hopkins, Thomas J. (1989). "The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West". In Bromley, David G.; Shinn, Larry D. (eds.). Krishna consciousness in the West. Bucknell University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8387-5144-2. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  4. Sengupta, Nitish K. (2001). History of the Bengali-Speaking People. UBS Publishers' Distributors. p. 25. ISBN 81-7476-355-4.
  5. Suhasini Bhatnagar and Suraksha Agrawal (2016). "Surname Endogamy among the Brahmin of India". Current Sociology. 50 (6): 853–861. doi:10.1177/0011392102050006005. S2CID 145181320.
  6. Upinder Singh (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Pearson Education India. p. 575. ISBN 9788131711200.
  7. Vikrama Volume. Scindia Oriental Institute. 1948. p. 597. OCLC 673844.
  8. Seth 1978, p. 3.
  9. Angela S. Burger (2022). Uttar Pradesh : General Background Opposition in a Dominant Party System A Study of the Jan Sangh, the Praja Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party in Uttar Pradesh, India. University of California Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780520365568.
  10. Kumar Suresh Singh (2008). People of India: Bihar (2 pts.). Anthropological Survey of India. p. 447. ISBN 9788170463023.
  11. N.K Singh (31 May 1996). "Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A private person with strong dislikes and few close friends". India Today.


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