Gotra and Pravara

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There are two more groups of Vaishnava smarthas (research has indicated that early Vadamas preferred to wear Gopi Chandana instead of Vibhuti) in Kerala; they wear Gopi Chandana in the pattern of Madhwa Brahmins of Karnataka who speak tulu and the long Gopi Chandana mark like the Marathi Brahmins round about Pandarpur.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


Sunder i belong to Vaishnava smartha who wear Gopi Chandana instead of Vibhuti, though Rajamannargudi near Thanjavur is my native. In our family we get conflicting claims about the length of the Gopi Chandana that we should wear. And the latest i heard from that subject was that the length should reflect your Gnanam. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> We speak tamil.

And i hear that there is two more sub-classification of vadamas in the Tanjavur belt as 1) Vada desathu vadama 2) Chozha desathu vadama. And i also heard from our family members that one of our fore fathers came down from Vada desa to Chozha desa (hence the vada desathu vadama) during the islamic invasion. They say that the people who migrated down south during that period generally went either to Chozha desa or Pallakkad.

So, i am not sure whether it implies Chozha desathu vadama migrated to south earlier than the vada desathu vadama.