Posted by: NALAPANI February 3, 2011
Basnet or Basnyat ??
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Do not believe in Gotras all the times. Having gotras may not necessarily mean your origin is linked with that rishi. Flocks of Brahmins escaped from moghul empire in india moved to Karnali region for shelter(not all bramhins are fugitives, many of them are of khas origin). Because of similarity in physical features, they started to convert khas to chhetris by giving jaani and gotras. You are a basnyatt it means you wear janai (at least once during bratabandh) how many threads do you have in your janai? 4 right? Do you know how many threads bahuns have? If bahun gave you a true gayatri mantra and 6 threaded janain then you are of rajasthani rajpoot root, I do not have anything to say. But in our case (we had a samuhik bratabandh) bahun gave mantra and janai separately and differently to chhetri and bahun kumars.  And there were many basnet boys in our group. FYI, there is no difference between a rajpoot and bahun in india. Why bahun treat nepali chetris as untouchables sometimes? Nepal ma chhetri le chhoko bahun le kina khadaina??? And what about matawali basnyat of jumla who do not wear janai and have no any gotra, but they may look just like you ???[ They left unconverted because of geogrpahical remoteness that caused migrated brahmins unable to reach them: read SABAI JAAT KO FULBARI, DOR BAHADUR BISTA] . Give me these answers.
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