Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s11.589
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s11.589
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v1.c3.s11.589
The use of the term Kula points clearly to a system of individual families, each no doubt consisting of several members under the headship of the father or eldest brother, whose Kula the dwelling is. As distinct from Gotra, Kula seems to mean the family in the narrower sense of the members who still live in one house, the undivided family. *Cf.* Gṛha, Grāma, Jana, Viś.