Bengali Brahmin: Difference between revisions

Multiple land-grants to Brahmins, from since the Gupta Era have been observed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Griffiths|first=Arlo|date=2018|title=Four More Gupta-period Copperplate Grants from Bengal|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01954015|journal=Pratna Samiksha: A Journal of Archaeology|volume=New Series|issue=9|pages=15–57}}</ref> The Dhanaidaha copper-plate inscription, dated to 433 CE, is the earliest of them and records a grantee Brahmin named Varahasvamin.<ref name=":0" /> According to historians P. C. Choudhuri, K. R. Medhi and [[Kanaklal Barua|K. L. Barua]], the Brahmins mentioned in the [[Nidhanpur copperplate inscription|Nidhanpur]] (7th-century) and [[Dubi copperplate inscription|Dubi]] inscriptions of king [[Bhaskaravarman]]" bore surnames "which are at present used by Kayasthas of Bengal and [[Nagar Brahmins|Nagara Brahmins]] of [[Gujarat]]".<ref name="contemporary1998">{{cite book|author1=S. R. Bakshi |author2=S. R. Sharma |author3=S. Gajrani |title=Contemporary Political Leadership in India|chapter=Land and the People|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L1i51KFUyzIC&pg=PA14|year=1998|publisher=APH Publishing Corporation|isbn=81-7648-008-8|pages=13–14}}</ref> In the 11th century, a new group of Brahmins who were [[Brahmakshatriya]] came from Karnat (modern-day [[Karnataka]]) in [[South India]] to establish the [[Sena dynasty]].{{sfn|Siddiq|2015|p=35}}