According to Hindu Smriti Puranas, how many types of Brahmins are there? How many types of Brahmins are there ??

In ancient times, people of every caste, society, etc., used to be elites to become Brahmins. Everyone still has the right to be a Brahmin. Whether he is from any caste, province or sect, he can become a Brahman by taking Gayatri initiation, but to become a Brahmin, certain rules have to be followed. We are not talking about that Brahmin society, most of whom have abandoned their Brahmin karma and adopted other deeds. Although he is no longer a Brahmin, but he is still a Brahmin.

Who are pure Brahmins?

Types of Brahmins? 

brahmin caste list? 

Is Brahmin a high caste?

What are the 7 Gotras?

In the Smriti-Puranas, 8 distinctions of Brahman are found: - mere, Brahmin, Srotriya, Anuchan, Embryo, Rishikalpa, Rishi and Muni. There are 8 types of Brahmins mentioned earlier in Shruti. Apart from this, Brahmins who are elevated from descent, knowledge and virtue are called 'Trishukla'. The Brahmin is also called the Dharmist Vipra and Dwij.

1. Mere: Such Brahmins who are Brahmins by caste but they are not Brahmins by karma have been called mere. No one is called a Brahmin by taking birth in a Brahmin clan. Many Brahmins are away from Brahmin-oriented Upanayana rites and Vedic deeds, then they are just that. Some of them are not even this. They are simply Shudras. They worship various types of deities and indulge in the rituals of night. All those demons can also be righteous.

2. Brahmins: Godless, Vedapathi, Brahmagami, simple, secular, truthful, and firm with intellect, are called Brahmins. Except for the deeds of Puranicas, which do various types of worship, etc., the one who conducts Vedasamma is called Brahmin.

3. Srotriya: According to the memory, any person who recites any one branch of the Veda with kalpa and all the six limbs is enriched in the six deeds of Brahmanism, it is called ‘Srotriya’.

4. Anuchan: Any person who is an enlightenment of the Vedas and Vedangas, sinless, pure mind, superior, teacher and scholar of the pupils, is considered as 'Anuchan'.

5. Embryo: Having all the virtues of the ritual, he only engages himself in Yajna and Swadhyaya, such a person with self-control is called a fetus.

6. Hrishikalpa: Anyone who has knowledge of all Vedas, Smriti and cosmic subjects, subdues the mind and senses and resides in the ashram by always following celibacy is called Rishikalpa.

7. Rishi: Such a person is unconcerned and doubtful by being brahmachari while doing proper diet, viharas etc. and whose curse and grace is coming to fruition, that truthful and capable person has been called a sage.

8. Muni: A person who is situated in the path of isolation, knowledge of all elements, meditational, Jitendriya and Siddha, such a Brahmin is called ‘Muni’.

Most of the above are more than mere 'nominal' Brahmins.

The word Brahmin was first used for the Rishis, the pronounceers of the Atharveda. Then to understand each Veda, the texts were written and they were also called Brahman literature. The Brahmin did not belong to any caste or society then.

Now after the formation of the society, the highest division or classification in India is among the Brahmins such as: Saryuparin, Kanyakubj, Jijhotia, Maithil, Marathi, Bengali, Bhargava, Kashmiri, Sanadhya, Gaur, Maha-Baman and much more. Similarly, the highest surname (surname or title) is also prevalent among Brahmins. How the origin of these surnames came to know about some of them.

* Brahman reciting one Veda was called Pathak.

* The two Veda reciters were called Dwivedi, which eventually submerged.

* The one who read the three Vedas was called Trivedi, which Tripathi also started saying, which later became Tiwari.

* Those reading the four Vedas are called Chaturvedi, which later became Chaubey.

* Those who read Shukla Yajurveda are called Shukla or Shukla.

* The scholar of the four Vedas, Puranas and Upanishads was called Pandit, who later became Pandey, Pandey, Pandiya, Padhyaya. This Padhyaya later became Upadhyaya.

* Those who hold shastras or perform shastras were honored with the title of Shastri.

* Apart from these, the descendants of famous sages adopted their Rishikul or gotra name as a surname, such as: - Bhagavan Parasuram also belonged to Bhrigu clan. The descendants of Bhrigu clan are called Bhargava, similarly Gautama, Agnihotri, Garg, Bhardwaj etc.

* Many Brahmins were also given many titles by many rulers, which were later used by their descendants as surnames. In this way the surnames of Brahmins came into vogue. Such as Rao, Rawal, Maharawal, Kanungo, Mandalik, Zamindar, Chaudhary, Patwari, Deshmukh, Cheetnis, Pradhan,

* Banerjee, Mukherjee, Joshiji, Sharmaji, Bhattji, Vishwakarmaji, Maithliji, Jha, Dhar, Srinivas, Mishra, Mendola, Apte etc. have thousands of surnames which have their own separate history.

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