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village from which the family originally hailed. So, for example, Bidkar come from town of
Beed. Some prominent Deshastha Brahmins with ‘-kar’ surnames are marathi poet Kusumagraj
(V. V. Shirwadkar). The names Kulkarni, Deshpande and Joshi are very common amongst
Deshastha Brahmins and denote their professions. For example, ‘Kulkarni’ means revenue
collector and ‘Joshi’ means astrologer. Common Deshastha Brahmin surnames like Kulkarni,
Joshi & Deshpande will be repeated several times because these denote different families or
more precisely different clans.
From the list it can also be found out, for example, that the Adawadkar and Ghotkar families are
related and belong to the same clan because they have identical gotra, kuldevta and are both
Rigvedi.