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only of the fact that the parties thereto belonged to the same gotra or pravara or belonged to different religions, castes or sub-divisions

husband, has been denied. Before marriage she should be of a different gotra from that of her husband [Manu., ch. III, pl. 5; Steele ... that, on her marriage, the wife enters the gotra (family) of her husband, is a fact familiar to the ears of all acquainted with Hindu

memory of birth and name extends. This is signified by gotra. 28. Their Lordships have preferred to adopt for the purposes of this judgment ... paternal grandmother, the paternal grandfather and the other sapindas of the same gotra are heirs; since the sapindas (or persons connected through the pinda

divided into two groups-namely, samanagotra sapindas (blood relations of the same gotra or stock) and bhinna-gotra sapindas (consanguineous relations belonging to another gotra ... blood relations connected through females who have passed into other families or gotras. The bhinna-gotra sapindas on whom the law confers the right

belonged to village Median, District Sangrur, but she did not know his Gotra. She deposed that she was a Jat Sikh and belongs to village ... cast is Bhullar. He stated that he did not know the Gotra of respondent. He denied the suggestion that no customary divorce is prevalent

bridegroom and the bride must not be of the same gotra and pravara. (2) The bride must not be a descendant within the seventh degree ... important exception. It is that if the bride is removed by three gotras, she would be eligible for marriage even if she falls within

First, as to the word kula. That word and the word gotra are sometimes synonymous. There is a distinction in point of-kula and gotra ... husband is reborn.". Though by birth he obtains the kula or gotra of his father, yet the kula or gotra is his without reference

does the Hindu's son also, like his father, lose the gotra and rights of inheritance in the family of his birth and acquire ... gotra and a right of succession to the property of the family into which the Hindu is adopted? 2. The parties to this second appeal

sapindas of the deceased inherit-i. e., those who share the same gotra as the deceased. 25. According to the Hindu Shastras, a woman ... marriage in (the approved form loses the gotra of her birth and acquires that of her husband. Accepting this view, Nilakantha, the author

brothers, (v) the sons of his brothers, (vi) others of the same gotra, (vii) kindred more remote, (viii) a pupil, (ix) a fellow-student - these ... relationship. Mitakshara divided blood relations into three classes, namely - 23 (a) Gotra-sapindas, i.e., Sapindas belonging to the same gotra or family