Bampur के पाण्डेय, गोत्र पराशर सर्वश्रेष्ठ ब्राह्मण है। एवं संस्कृत के महान ग्रंथों के रचयिता महर्षि पराशर केe वंशज हैं। इनका विस्तार प्रयागराज के आस पास पाया जाता है। यह भारत में काफी कम संख्या में हैं लेकिन आनुवंशिक रूप से काफी विद्वान माने जाते हैं।Shandilya (

IAST The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Brahmic family, Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that ...

: Śāṇḍilya) is a gotra which is named after the great sage Shandilya, specifying that individuals of the gotra have Shandilya as one of their patrilineal ancestors. Shandilya Rishi was the progenitor of the Śāṇḍilya gotra. The name derives from the Sanskrit words Śaṇ, and Dilam, thus meaning Full Moon, therefore implying Śāṇḍilya to be the priest of the Moon God. People belonging to this gotra are considered to be of lunar race. This gotra has three pravar, they are Sandilya, Asit and Deval. The Veda of this gotra is Samveda. Sandilya gotra is the largest gotra in Maithil Brahmins of

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

and

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

. Many families claiming direct patrilineal ancestry to this gotra can be found throughout India and Nepal. People of this gotra hail from

and many Indian states such as West Bengal, Bihar, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha. Many Saraswat Brahmin families residing in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh claim Shandilya as their paternal ancestor. There are 44 mool (origin) of Shandilya gotra in Maithil Brahmins. Other than Brahmins, some clans of Rajputs, like Banauts, Waldias, and Parmars, have Shandilya Gotra and have Shandilya as one of their patrilineal ancestors. There are only few Nepalis with Sandilya Gotra such as ''Kafle'', ''Poudar'' and ''Prasai'' but their population is relatively high compared to people with other gotras in Nepal.

References

Gotras Brahmin communities {{Hinduism-stub

See also

References