History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.289
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.289
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The connection of gotra and pravara may be stated thus: Gotra is the latest ancestor or one of the latest ancestors of a person by whose name his family has been known for generations; while pravara is constituted by the sage or sages who lived in the remotest past, who were most illustrious and who are generally the ancestors of the gotra sages or in some cases the remotest ancestor alone.