Pancha-Gauda

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Pancha Gauda is one of the two major groupings of Brahmins in Hinduism, of which the other was Pancha-Dravida.

According to Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the Pancha Gauda group includes the following five Brahmin communities residing to the north of the Vindhyas:[1][2]

  1. Gauda
  2. Kannaujia
  3. Maithila
  4. Utkala
  5. Saraswat Brahmin (including Goud Saraswat Brahmins, who have migrated to the south of Vindhyas)

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