[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c26.281 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.281 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.281 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c26.281](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c26.281) The word gotra also came to mean any family name (surname). In the inscriptions we find this usage very often. For example, in the Bannahalli plate of the Kadamba king Kṛṣṇavarma II (E. I. vol. VI, p. 18) a śreṣṭhin (a merchant) is said to have been of the Tuṭhiyalla gotra and pravara. The Reḍḍi king (a śūdra) Allaya Vema of Rajahmundry was said to have been of the Polvola gotra (E. I. vol. XIII. p. 237, of śake 1356). - [Previous: v2.c26.280](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c26.280) - [Next: v2.c26.282](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c26.282) - [Up: v2.c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c26) ## Cites (2) - [B.—Of Saka 1535](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.deccan.aravidu.b-of-saka-1535) — Sanskrit - [Bannahaḷḷi Grant of Kṛṣṇavarman II, Year 7](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.deccan.kadamba.bannahalli-grant-of-krsnavarman-ii-year-7*kielhorn1901) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c26.281](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c26.281) · Pramāṇa