Thursday, 20 December 2018

Gotra / गोत्र

Gotra / गोत्र
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A brief description about how 'Gotra' is scientific.
When a child is conceived in the mother's womb it either begins with choosing x-x chromosome and gets each one from both the parents, -becomes a female, Or, it begins with choosing x-y chromosome. Now the interesting fact is : the x-chromosome could come from mother or father both and when such both the chromosome are x only, one of them is from the father (the male- parent). But when a child gets an x-y pair of chromosome one y is invariably from the father and the child is born as a male or a boy like the father.This means the heredity is scientific way as basis for determining the 'Gotra'. In Vedik parlance and doctrine the same is true because the Father is the basis of the 'Gotra' concept. The son is called 'Atmaja' while the daughter is though 'AtmajA' after gave in to someone to of the other 'Gotra', she owns the 'Gotra' of the in-laws.
y-chromosome thus clearly undoubtedly defines with certainty the heredity in a unique way, as it justifies how Father is the basis of the Clan.
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Now there is no such a thing as 'Dattatreya' Gotra, though Lord 'Dattatreya' / दत्तात्रेय was born to the couple named Atri-AnasUyA (अत्रि-अनसूया).
 This is not Mythology but True History How the Three Lords namely Brahma, Vishnu and Shankara having taken up a human form approached as Brahmins (ब्राह्मण) at the door of the place where the couple lived in the 'Atri-Ashrama' / 'अत्रि-आश्रम' .
The three Lords were welcomed and were invited to take food.
As the three Lords were come there to examine the chastity (सतीत्व) of  AnasUyA / अनसूया, They put a condition that AnasUyA / अनसूया should discard all her clothes before serving them food.
She agreed and took water from the jar uttered a mantra and sprinkled upon the three ! Lo and Behold ! The three instantly lost their human form and became an infant though with three heads, six arms but only a single trunk. Then She fed them the cow-milk from her cow.
So 'Dattatreya' / दत्तात्रेय was born in the Atri -clan / अत्रि  (Gotra / गोत्र)., - Atreya आत्रेय .
This was / is the Gotra / गोत्र of 'Dattatreya' / दत्तात्रेय, an avatar of the three Lords.
'Dattatreya' / दत्तात्रेय is also known 'Atribhuta' / अत्रिभूत because He was an adopted son of the अत्रि-ऋषि (Father) and  AnasUyA / अनसूया (Mother)
The English word 'attribute' is but the cognate (सज्ञाति) of  'Atribhuta' / अत्रिभूत - the Sanskrit word .
This may also be of interest to know that the word Atri / अत्रि itself is a 'Gotra' /  गोत्र and 'Dattatreya' / दत्तात्रेय is just the conjured up for 'कौल' / 'कौलटेय' which is quite a misnomer .
Later on whosoever came to  'Dattatreya' / दत्तात्रेय was given this name at the time of initiation in the 'Gotra' /  गोत्र, while all those who belong to this were ब्रह्मचारी / celibate.
In the coming times कुल, कुलीन, कौल, कुलटा were the words which indicated the two entirely different / altogether contrary meanings of the word.
There is a 'Kaula'-Tantra / 'कौल'-तन्त्र  which is often confused with ' 'Dattatreya-tantra' / दत्तात्रेय-तंत्र
The same thing happened with the word 'KAshyap'  'काश्यप' which was though initially a Gotra / गोत्र, was used to be applied for and given to one whose Gotra / गोत्र was unknown.
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 By the way the word AnasUyA / अनसूया  means the one who never delivered a baby.
असूया asUyA means jealousy, AnasUyA / अनसूया means one without jealousy.
सू सूयते (आत्मनेपदीय धातु) - to give birth to .
This gives us the cognates (सज्ञाति) like 'sue', ensue' verbs in English and pursue (प्रसू -प्रसव) as well.
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Now, in the above light, we may perhaps better understand :
What is the Gotra / गोत्र of Rahul Gandhi ?
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