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Bhalandana, who appears in the pravara, was the son of bhậga who, originally a Kshatriya, afterwards became a Va See Vishņu Purâna IV, amśa, 1st adhyàya.
There is a rule that, when a man forgets his gotra, he shd pronounce the Pravara of his A'chàrya or Guru, See A'pastam Pravara III. 20.
Another rule is that if, by mistake, men marry women born the same gotra as their own, the offspring should be takenKaśyapas. Vide Baudhảyana-Pravarasût ra, 56. The sense of t rule is not intelligible.
I annex a general table of genealogy of all the eightee;' fan lies above noticed and also a table showing the several gotras each family, the members of which are prohibited from inter-ma rying among themselves.
I must, however, say that the idea of 18 families is my own and not that of the text-writers. They consider that all Brâhmi are the descendants of Sapta or 7 Kishis and of Agastya, the 87 that the general rule is that the descendants of one and the same Rishi should not interinarry, but that there is an exception to this rule in the case of the descendants of Bhřigu and of Angiras exception being that they may intermarry if the majority of the Pravara-Kishis be not same. The reason for the exception is het where explained. I imagine that the reason for the exception that those persons in whose favour the exception is made are l'eally the descendants of Bhrigu or of Angiras, but only thetr 1 lowers, as I have shewn in the foregoing remark. The of my conclusions, however, are exactly the same as to the text-writers,
P. CHENTSAL RON
