ABOUT DASHNAMI

Dasnami Sampradaya One of the major achievements of Acharya Shankaracharya was to organize the Hindu monasticism. He divided the Hindu monks into ten sects called "Dasnami" and organized them under four heads with the Headquarters at Dwaraka in the West, Jagannatha Puri in the East, Rameswaram in the South and Badrikashrama in the North. These became the four sacred "Dhams", "Holy Places" of the Hindus. He also enumerated other details of the order of Hindu monks grouped under these heads for their identity. Although there are today a number of Hindu monastic sects, the most authentic are the ten established by Acharya Shankaracharya .

 Detail of dashnamis

Puri, Sarasvati, Bharati
Parts : Dakshina- Amnaya(Southern)
Math -Monaster :Shringeri
Pada(Order) :Puri, Sarasvati, Bharati
Acharya :Sureswar
Sampradaya(Sect) :Bhurivara
Kshetra :Rameswar
God(Deva) :Adi-Varaha
Upanishad :Brihadaranyaka
Veda :Yajurveda
Mahavakya :Aham-Brahmasmi
Goddess :Kamakshi (Sarada)
Tirtha(River) :Tungabhadra
Gotra :Bhaveswa

Detailed for
Tirth, Ashram
Parts :Paschima- Amnaya(Western)
Math -Monastery :Dwaraka
Pada(Order) :Tirth, Ashram
Acharya :Hastamalaka
Sampradaya(Sect):Keeravara
Kshetra :Dwaraka
GOD(Deva) :Siddheswar
Upanishad :Chhandogya
Veda :Samaveda
Mahavakya :Tattvamasi
Goddess :BhadraKali
Tirtha(River) :Gomati
TirthaGotra :Adhigata


Detailed for
Vana, Aranya
Parts :Purva-amnaya(Eastern)
Math -Monastery :JagannathPuri
Pada(Order) :Vana, Aranya
Acharya :Padmapada
Sampradaya(Sect) :Bhagavara
Kshetra :Purushottam
God(Deva) :Jagannatha
Upanishad :Taittiriya
Veda :Rikveda
Mahavakya :Prajnanum
BrahmaGoddess :Vimala
Tirtha(River) : Mahonadhi
Gotra :Kashyap

Detailed for
Giri, Parvat. Sagar
Parts : Uttara-amanaya (Northern)
Math -Monaster :Jyotirdham
Pada(Order) :Giri, Parvat. Sagar
Acharya : Totakacharya
Sampradaya(Sect) :Anandavara
Kshetra :Badri-kshetra
God(Deva) :Narayana
Upanishad :Mandukya
Veda :Atharva-Veda
Mahavakya :AyamAtma
Brahma Goddess :PurnaaGiri
Tirtha(River) :Alakananda
Gotra :Bhrigu
GIRI PURI BHARATI (DASH NAMIS)

 Giri orders of dasa namis are
1.Giri [Peak of mountain]
2.Puri ( a town) 
3.Bharathi (the Goddess of speech)
4.Ban or Van (the forest)
5.Tirtha (A shrine or pilgrimage)
6.Parvat (a mountain) 
7.Sagar (the ocean)
8.Saraswati (the Goddess of learning) 
9.Aashram (Hermitage)
10.Aranya (forest)

29 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 1:43 AM

    PLEASE PUT IT AS BRAHMIN DASHNAM GOSWAMI..

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    1. AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 1:45 AM

      we are the Brahmin dashnami please all of you ,i,request to write it as thanks bro/sis who post this...thanks

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    2. आभाषOctober 9, 2020 at 8:46 AM

      Strongly disagree with you. Dashnami's are not the Brahmins....Person from any cast can be Dashnami.

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    3. Sachin GiriApril 23, 2022 at 8:38 AM

      Abhash, Dashnami's all are Brahmins. Dashnami Brahmin's don't do Karmkand they can become teacher to People & other people. Due to lack of communication gap between Dashnami. There are lot of dashnami people don't know importance of this Birth.

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  2. Sudhir GiriSeptember 14, 2014 at 9:06 AM

    That's great information! Thanks a bunch!

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  3. Shyam SunuwarOctober 11, 2015 at 10:30 AM

    hvggvh

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  4. kBDecember 4, 2016 at 9:22 AM

    Is Bharati chhetri or bhaun?

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  5. Rahul GiriMarch 8, 2017 at 1:32 AM

    Great information but I asked my mom n she said our gotta is bharadwaj so has she mistaken? The information here is 100% correct? Does it mean as the Veda mentioned in my column as Atharva Veda I must follow sandhya vandanam according to it?

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    1. UnknownAugust 3, 2018 at 4:13 AM

      Dear rahul first answer me one question was atharva Veda written before adhi guru sankrachary or after I hope you got my answer to your question .but I like to tell you e very one has one

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    2. AnonymousOctober 25, 2023 at 3:21 AM

      There are lots of gotra in dasnami not accurate

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  6. CA Shyamal K MitraMarch 13, 2017 at 11:52 AM

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    1. CA Shyamal K MitraMarch 13, 2017 at 11:55 AM

      The Maha Vaakya of the Puri Sampradaaya is not (Aham Brahmaasmi!) as cited above but So-Aham! (commonly mispronounced as Sohang!

      Though Aham Brahmaasmi! (I am Brahma) and Ayam Aatman Brahmasti! (This soul is itself the Brahma) and So Aham!(That is I) have the same sense of expressing the Vishishta Advaita Vaada of Swami Shi Shankaracharya Ji Maharaj which says that the soul and the Supreme Being are one and inseparable, So Aham! (That is I!) is the vedic answer to the eternal question Ko Asi? (Who art thou?) (Nachiketa - Yama dialog:Vrihadaaranya Upanishada)

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    2. AnonymousNovember 4, 2023 at 11:57 PM

      Sorry, Sohang is not a mispronuciation at all. Sa+ ahang = sohang. This is swar sandhi

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  7. bindassAugust 15, 2017 at 9:07 PM

    People asks me where does my cast lie in the cast system?? Is it above chettri or below chettri ? I have no idea. If anybody have information, please let me know.

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    1. UnknownSeptember 17, 2020 at 9:15 PM

      Giri Brahmins are highest in the Brahmins branch.

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  8. Piyush aranyaAugust 31, 2017 at 2:10 PM

    I am aranya but my gotra according to me is Angirasa but according to given information it should be Kashyapa. Why??

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  9. Pocket ArchitectFebruary 15, 2018 at 9:09 AM

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  10. Durgasankar MandalOctober 14, 2018 at 10:23 AM

    I see a few quite interesting questions being raised by different people on this post. The question seems to be centered around some kind of ancestry etc... For example, if my surname ends with a Puri - do I belong to the Puri sect? Interesting indeed. For, so far my understanding has been as below: 1) Adi Saankaracharya introduced this dus nami system for the monastic orders. 2) Not sure if this applies to the householders and can be mapped to the surnames of people. 3) Monks like Swami Vivekananda and all of them in the Ramakrishna order belong in the Puri Sect of Monks. Just like Yogi Adityanath belong in the Nath sect of monks or Kriya yogi Yogananda belong in the Giri sect. As a matter of fact Swami Vivekananda's full name is: Swami Vivekananda Puri. Similarly Swami Pranavananda Giri created the Bharat Sevashram Sangha order.

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    1. AnonymousNovember 5, 2023 at 12:02 AM

      Well, originally so. However, some followers of those sects over time became householders. So, they carried their monastic names

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  11. Mr. Bipin puriDecember 14, 2018 at 9:01 PM

    Hi..puri,giri,and bharati etc are the caste above brahmin...their work is to worship god and teach brahmins..so,they are lnown as the teacher of brahmin..

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  12. Mr. Bipin puriDecember 14, 2018 at 9:03 PM

    We are of upperest caste and pure caste of Hinduism...

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  13. UnknownDecember 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM

    Missing gotras of dashnami
    Kashyap
    Bharadwaja
    Rishi
    Sandilya

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  14. kBApril 21, 2020 at 11:40 AM

    We are Above all caste

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  15. BL DevnathJanuary 25, 2022 at 3:45 PM

    See in 51 Pithas and 52 Dhamas, Shiva and Shakti are there. Shiva himself is the Nath of all Nath in the whole Universe as said in Shiva Purana and also written there that when nothing was there, there Shiva existed. All and everything came from Shiva, so all are equal. Just for social higherarchy one section of people tried to dominate other section of people and tried to recognise themselves as higher castes, it's a silly matter. See how much one community contributed to the world in different fields, that's the matter. Most of us try to show our castes as higher caste by throwing clay upon other caste is a social joking, I think. They belong to higher classes who have contributed something good for the human beings as a whole. Others are third class brockers claims as higher as per my opinion.

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  16. AnonymousApril 26, 2023 at 11:15 PM

    who is ishta dev of puri goswami? If one wants to follow the path of spirituality then to which god he should pray?

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  17. AnonymousOctober 6, 2023 at 5:47 AM

    My father's side is Aparnathi, my mother side is Meghnathi. For some strange reasons we Giri's have 52 sub caste and they intermarry , excluding their own cast per example, I am an Aparnathi and I can not marry an Aparnathi.

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