A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.48

v1.c7.48

² There are in India two general divisions of Bramins, termed the Punch Gour [Panch Gāud], and the Punch Drawed [Panch Drāvida]; these two are subdivided into five each; the Punch Gour belong to what has been termed by Rennell, Hindoostan Proper, or the country north of the Nerbuddah, and the other five to Guzerat, and the country south of that river, and the Vendhia or (as they have been already noticed by the more familiar Mahratta name of) the Sautpoora mountains. Those south of the Nerbuddah are the Mahrasht, the Andur [Āndhra], or Teling, the Drawed, and the Carnatic. The Goojur [Gūjar] are of Guzerat. Besides the great divisions of Mahdeo Bhugt [Bhakt], and Vishnoo Bhugt [i.e. Mahādev Bhakt and Vishnu Bhakt, or in ordinary parlance Shaiva and Vaishnava], or the respective followers of Mahdeo and Vishnoo, there are a great number of subdivisions in all these five classes of Bramins, whose appellations correspond with four of the great divisions of the ancient definition of the Deccan already given; they also derive distinctions from any of the four Vedas in which they may be primarily instructed.