मनुस्मृति
Manusmṛti
The foundational Dharmaśāstra encoding Gotra law — including the seven-generation Sapiṇḍa boundaries that protect both lineage and genetic wisdom.
गोत्रं प्रवरं कुलदेवतां च
Gotraṁ pravaraṁ kuladevatāṁ ca
Your Gotra is not just a name — it is the unbroken thread of ten thousand years.
A sacred, invite-gated digital home for families of the gotra tradition — rooted in millennia of Vedic wisdom, built for the long arc of a lineage.
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Gotras Onboarded
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Tirth Locations
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Purohits on Record
The Six Sacred Layers
Every lineage is a living scripture.
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गोत्र
Gotra· Gotra
The patrilineal Rishi lineage. Passed without exception from father to son. Determines exogamy rules for all descendants.
P R I M A R Y
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प्रवर
Pravara· Pravara
The three (or five) ancestral Rishi names invoked in Vedic ritual. Recited during homa, vivāha, and upanayana ceremonies.
P R I M A R Y
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कुलदेवता · कुलदेवी
Kuladevta & Kuladevi· Kuladevatā · Kuladevī
The presiding deities of the clan — the Kuladevta (male principle) and Kuladevi (female principle) propitiated together at births, weddings, and rites of passage. Two parallel patrilineal traditions, divine protectors across generations.
P R I M A R Y
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कुलगुरु
Kulaguru· Kulaguru
The hereditary spiritual preceptor family. Links a household to its Vedic teacher lineage across generations of discipleship.
P R I M A R Y
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शाखा
Shakha· Śākhā
The Vedic recension branch — the specific school of Veda studied and recited by the family. Determines ritual procedure and mantra corpus.
S E C O N D A R Y
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सूत्र
Sutra· Sūtra
The Gṛhyasūtra or Dharmasūtra text that governs the family's domestic rites. Prescribes precise procedure for each saṁskāra.
S E C O N D A R Y
With Reverence
The traditions this platform honours.
सप्त ऋषि गण
Sapta Ṛṣi Gaṇa
Eighteen Rishis whose spiritual lineages define the 18 Aggarwal Gotras — each a living thread connecting today's families to Vedic antiquity.
महाराजा अग्रसेन
Maharaja Agrasen
Founder of the Aggarwal community. Established the 18-Gotra system as the foundation of kinship, trade, and dharmic continuity.
तीर्थ स्थान
Tīrtha Sthāna
Sacred confluences where Panda Bahis preserve century-old family records — geography as genealogy, water as witness.
तीर्थ पुरोहित
Tīrtha Purohita
Hereditary Pandas who maintain handwritten Bahīs across generations — the original custodians of family memory at every sacred ghāṭ.
How It Works
From invitation to anchored lineage — in three quiet steps.
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आमन्त्रण· Āmantraṇa
Receive your invitation.
A Community Admin or verified family member sends you a personal invite. Self-registration is not permitted — every new member must be vouched for.
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A personal invitation
From Ramesh Garg
Garg Community Admin · Delhi
नमस्ते — your branch of the family is missing from the Garg lineage. Please join us in completing it.
Accept invitation →
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सत्यापन· Satyāpana
Verify your identity, gently.
Sign in with a PIN — and a one-time code on first sign-in. No passwords, ever. We match your details against existing verified family records before access is granted.
Enter the 6-digit code sent to +91 ••••• ••432
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स्थापन· Sthāpana
Anchor your lineage.
Add your Gotra, Pravara, Kuladevta and Kuladevi. Connect to a parent or sibling already in the system, or invite them to join your branch.
Our Principles
How a custodial archive behaves.
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Data Sanctity Over Growth
A smaller, verified dataset is always preferred over a large, unverified one. Every record must trace to a living, accountable member.
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Privacy by Default
Members only. Invite-gated. Mobile numbers and emails are never visible to other members. No lineage data is exposed to unauthenticated visitors.
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Shastric Authority
Manusmṛti, Bahī records, and Purohit testimony are the reference sources. Contested data is flagged for admin review, not silently overwritten.
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Celebration, Not Comparison
Every Gotra and every lineage is honoured equally on its own terms. No ranking, no hierarchy among Gotras — each thread is sacred.
Platform Features
Built for the long arc of a lineage.
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Family Tree Visualisation
Interactive multi-generation tree with patriarch lines, marriage links, and adoption flags — rendered live from a verified graph. Paternal ↔ maternal toggle, right-side detail panel, decade-grouped Family Legacy timeline below.
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Gotra Registry
All 18 Aggarwal Gotras catalogued with Pravara sequences, Rishi histories, associated Kuladevtas & Kuladevis, Shakha, and Sutra.
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Exogamy / Sapiṇḍa Check
Automated Gotra and Sapiṇḍa relationship check before a proposed marriage — flags within 7 paternal and 5 maternal generations.
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Tirth Purohit Directory
Searchable directory of hereditary Purohits and Pandas at major tīrthas — matched to your Gotra and Pravara for accurate Bahī lookup.
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Panda Bahi Integration
Link verified Bahī register entries from Haridwar, Gaya, and Pushkar directly to family person records for documentary provenance.
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Lineage AI Assistant
Ask questions about your Pravara, ritual obligations, or ancestral geography — answers grounded in shastric sources.
Voices From the Lineage
What custodians and members are saying.
वंशस्य रक्षा धर्मः
For seventy years, our family's Bahī sat in a steel almirah in my father's house. Gotra Guru is the first place I have trusted to hold a digital copy of it — because it treats those pages as scripture, not as data.
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Pandit Vinod Sharma
Tīrtha Purohit · Haridwar
सत्यमेव जयते
“The Sapiṇḍa check before my daughter's vivāha gave me certainty in five seconds that would have taken three Purohits a week.”
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Ramesh Garg
Garg Community Admin · Delhi
कुलं संरक्षेत्
“My grandmother knew our Gotra. My father forgot. With this, my children will not have to ask anyone — it is theirs.”
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Anita Bansal
Verified member · Mumbai
गुरुर्ब्रह्मा
“I have spent forty years asking families their Pravara at weddings. To see this written down — correctly — is a great relief.”
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Acharya Madhusudan
Kulaguru · Kāśī Śākhā
विद्या ददाति विनयं
“I added six generations in one evening. My uncle in Kolkata added four more the next morning. We had never spoken about it before.”
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Vikram Kansal
Verified member · Bengaluru
Frequently Asked
What people ask before they join.
Data sanctity is preferred over growth. Every record must trace back to a living, accountable member who can be reached and corrected. Open registration would dilute that chain of custody irreparably.
Only verified members of your extended family — never the general public, never search engines. Mobile numbers and email addresses are never visible to other members, even within your own branch. Community Admins see structural data only, not contact details.
Most Aggarwal families belong to one of eighteen Gotras founded by Maharaja Agrasen. A Community Admin can help match you against existing branches using your surname, native village, and Kuladevta / Kuladevi. If no match exists, your Tīrtha Purohit's Bahī is the next reference.
Contested entries are flagged, never silently overwritten. Disputes go to a Community Admin, who consults the Bahī record and Purohit testimony before resolving. The audit trail is preserved.
Only with the explicit consent of the Tīrtha Purohit who maintains them. When stored, scans are linked to family records as documentary provenance — they are never the source of truth, only an attestation.
No. Gotra Guru is a community trust, not a SaaS subscription. We accept dāna from verified members who wish to support the work, but membership is never paywalled.
वंशे आगच्छ
Join the Repository
Request an invitation.
Gotra Guru is invite-gated. Requests are reviewed by Community Admins and matched to existing verified family records before access is granted.
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