Anavil is a caste in South Gujarat. I consider them dynamic, educated, able administrators and forward caste. The problem with them is they consider them converts from Bhils. Guys, let me tell you that it's not true and here are the reasons why??
Every anavil has a gotra. Gotra is a system in Brahmins that gets passed from generations to generations. In other words, it's a lineage from rishis. It is not possible to invent gotras that every anavil has. Also, like anavils there are many Brahmin sub-castes in India like Bhumihar Brahmins in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Tyagi Brahmins in Western Uttar Pradesh, Goud Brahmins in U.P. and Rajasthan, Chitpawan Brahmins in Maharashtra, Havyak Brahmins in Karnataka, Niyogi Brahmins in Andhra Pradesh, Iyer Brahmins of Tamil Nadu, Namboothiri Brahmins in Kerala, Bengali Brahmins in Eastern India and Mohyals in the Punjab region that do not do rituals. It's not that they are not permitted but they joined hands with Parshurama and stopped doing rituals at some point due to other involvement and commitments. They are either land owners or do other professions.
A Brahmin has pravars too as per their professions and each brahmin follows certain shakha of ved. I know many anavils follow Yajur Ved shakha which is very common with bhumihar Brahmins from Bihar.
Another claim that is being made by anavils is bhagwan Ram gave Brahmin diksha to anavils that makes no sense to me and here is why? Because Ram was born as a Kshatriya and kshatriyas weren't allowed to do any rituals even in those days and even now. For that matter, no one other than a brahmin can perform any ritual. So, Ram cannot give any diksha to anyone even though he is considered God's incarnation - period... On the contrary, even in Ayodhya Guru Vasishtha who was considered Rajarshi used to do all rituals for raja Dashrath and Ram. Only Brahmins are allowed to rituals in Hinduism.
On top of this, all gotras that Anavils claim resembles with gotras in Western Bihar and Eastern UP. Due to all these facts, I can conclusively say that anavils are bhumihar brahimns and that claim their roots from Bhojpur, Siwan ans Saran districts of today's Bihar state and Ballia district of today's Uttar Pradesh.
In fact, there is also a theory that says that historically anavil forefathers migrated to Bihar from Baluchistan. I tend to believe in this theory as anavils also worship kuldevi in addition to their ishtadev. Anavil's ishtadev is shukleshwar mahadev and kuldevis are different as per their villages. Some villagers in Valsad district have Hinglaj Maa as as their kuldevi and Hinglaj Maa's shaktipeeth is one of 52 shaktipeethas situated near Makran (a port town) in Baluchistan in today's Pakistan.
Anavils need to take pride of their own heritage!!! Brahminism just doesn't happen by chance or conversion, it is a heritage that is passed from generations to generations...
Guys, something to think about!!!
Every anavil has a gotra. Gotra is a system in Brahmins that gets passed from generations to generations. In other words, it's a lineage from rishis. It is not possible to invent gotras that every anavil has. Also, like anavils there are many Brahmin sub-castes in India like Bhumihar Brahmins in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Tyagi Brahmins in Western Uttar Pradesh, Goud Brahmins in U.P. and Rajasthan, Chitpawan Brahmins in Maharashtra, Havyak Brahmins in Karnataka, Niyogi Brahmins in Andhra Pradesh, Iyer Brahmins of Tamil Nadu, Namboothiri Brahmins in Kerala, Bengali Brahmins in Eastern India and Mohyals in the Punjab region that do not do rituals. It's not that they are not permitted but they joined hands with Parshurama and stopped doing rituals at some point due to other involvement and commitments. They are either land owners or do other professions.
A Brahmin has pravars too as per their professions and each brahmin follows certain shakha of ved. I know many anavils follow Yajur Ved shakha which is very common with bhumihar Brahmins from Bihar.
Another claim that is being made by anavils is bhagwan Ram gave Brahmin diksha to anavils that makes no sense to me and here is why? Because Ram was born as a Kshatriya and kshatriyas weren't allowed to do any rituals even in those days and even now. For that matter, no one other than a brahmin can perform any ritual. So, Ram cannot give any diksha to anyone even though he is considered God's incarnation - period... On the contrary, even in Ayodhya Guru Vasishtha who was considered Rajarshi used to do all rituals for raja Dashrath and Ram. Only Brahmins are allowed to rituals in Hinduism.
On top of this, all gotras that Anavils claim resembles with gotras in Western Bihar and Eastern UP. Due to all these facts, I can conclusively say that anavils are bhumihar brahimns and that claim their roots from Bhojpur, Siwan ans Saran districts of today's Bihar state and Ballia district of today's Uttar Pradesh.
In fact, there is also a theory that says that historically anavil forefathers migrated to Bihar from Baluchistan. I tend to believe in this theory as anavils also worship kuldevi in addition to their ishtadev. Anavil's ishtadev is shukleshwar mahadev and kuldevis are different as per their villages. Some villagers in Valsad district have Hinglaj Maa as as their kuldevi and Hinglaj Maa's shaktipeeth is one of 52 shaktipeethas situated near Makran (a port town) in Baluchistan in today's Pakistan.
Anavils need to take pride of their own heritage!!! Brahminism just doesn't happen by chance or conversion, it is a heritage that is passed from generations to generations...
Guys, something to think about!!!
Dear Anavils, do you know who are you? From where the lineage is coming? Who were our forefathers? What they have done for society? It makes me sick to see that some anavils have decided to give memorandum to the collector asking them to include themselves in to backward caste because somebody (some illiterate patels)is doing it without even giving a thought to it!
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you that I myself am an anavil and I consider myself a Brahmin. I don't care what other anavils think of themselves. My forefathers were not BC and I'll never beg for any kind of reservation neither for myself nor for my next generations. The reservation is for weak people who think they can't compete with the world. I can tell you that it makes you think as a weak and eventually the whole samaj will become weak.
Anavils were like lions and will be lions!!! I stand against any type of reservation for anavils. Let's keep working hard and the success will be ours... God has given everything to us as a community and what we need for our young generation is the right advise from elders and I'm confident that our boys and girls will make it happen..
Jai Anavil!!!
Good and lionee ethics. Bravo.
DeleteJay ANAVIL.
Well said & best of luck to you. No Anavil should have to lower themselves to be included in any bc lists. My ancestors would be swearing like hell if they ever heard of this nonsense.
DeleteWell said!!! Proud Anavil....
ReplyDeleteAnavil kaun se rishi ki Santan h
ReplyDeleteRISHI VASHISHTH GOTRA
DeleteI also belong to bhumihar Brahmins.
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody know what is the Naik's gotra?
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody know KAUNAS GOTRA's KULDEVI ?? - ANAVIL BRAHMIN (NAIK)
DeleteRISHI VASHISHTH GOTRA
DeleteAll family have different gotras
DeleteHello Jay Naik
DeleteI also belong to KAUNAS gotra and I came to know from my grandfather that pur kuldevi maa is in Valsad ( he didn't remembered the name) .
When I searched online it says our Kuldevi maa is Garadi Mata
Fruitful information
ReplyDeleteThis is very necessary to unite all Ayachak brahmins(non-begging brahmins). Anavil, Bhumihar, Tyagi, mohiyal, niyogi and all from India.
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody know KAUNAS GOTRA's KULDEVI ?? - ANAVIL BRAHMIN (NAIK)
ReplyDeleteKaushik mata
DeleteI am Dhodia Patel
ReplyDeletefrom Navsari city
We have also Joshi , Mehta , nagar , Desai , nayak kuls in our community .
Most of kuls are Garasiya's
Some kuls originated from Maharastra Ex. Prabhu ( Prabhu Means Lord in Marathi language ) 250 + kuls available All kuls have only 1 gotra that Kashyap .
Some Historian said that Anavil community connected with Dhodias .
Dhodia is Dhodia Patel. Anavil Brahmin is an ancient community of Like minded Vedic Brahmin clans that lived in a walled city called Anavalsthan, this city was in the middle of thick jungle. The Anavils have various Gotra like Bharadwaj, Kaunsh, Krishnatri, Lanasa, Kauntdilya, Kaushik etc…
ReplyDeleteThey also have various Kul Devi in various villages since the walls of Anavilsthan were broken around 1k years ago & the Vedic families of Anavilsthan spread out over south Gujarat & created new villages by clearing jungles & got know throughout Bharat as the Anavil Brahmin.
They also introduced rice cultivation to the area & that is why later on the members of the community who were closest to doing agriculture were known as Bhatellas by other communities.