eh, echoes, you're going to have to take a human anthropology class on that one. It's easy for people like thugged out to give stupid explanations based on what they got off the internet, but to really understand what a brahmin is and the evolution behind it, you're going to have to study it yourself. and yea, while lots of people in nepal have purohit last names, they are not purohits (just mixed people). about the family thing, well they were very sexist. When my parents decided to only have one child, they were all upset that my parents weren't obsessed with the concept of 'euta ta chora paununai parcha.'