Brahman-Vidu: Deccan

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Brahman-Vidu

This article is an extract from THE CASTES AND TRIBES OF H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS BY SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and Middle Temple, London. One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. BOMBAY THE TlMES PRESS 1920 Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version/ additional information to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

Vidurs, Krishnapakshis, Brahmanjayis — said to be the off- spring of a Brahman father and a Kunbi mother. The members of the caste claim descent from the famous Vidur of the Mahabharata, who was begotten by Krishna Dwaipayana or Vyasa, a slave girl of the king Vichitrawirya. They regard themselves as being higher than the Maratha Kunbis and a little lower than the Maratha Brahmans.

Their marriages are regulated by exogamous sections, consisting oi surnames, and families bearing the same surname do not mtermarry. They have no sub-divisions and in matters of religion and ceremony they follow the Maratha Brahmans. Their tutelary deities are Bhavani of Tuljapur and Khandoba of Jejuri.