Lingayat Vani
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lingayat-vani-203-9363271
title:
Lingayat Vani
text:
The Lingayat Vani community is an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India. They belong to Veershaiv sect of Hindu Shaivism and are also referred to as Veershaiv-Lingayat Vanik or Lingayat Balija or Vira Banajiga or Bir Vanigas. The name Vani is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Vanijya' which means trade. The Vira Banajigas were a trading caste. They rejected the custodial hold of Brahmins over Vedas and shastras but did not outright reject the Vedic knowled
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Social community of South Asia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingayat_Vani
date created:
2024-07-10T14:03:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:57:20Z
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