WHO ARE WE ?
Gems from: H. H. SUDHEENDRA THIRTHA SWAMIJI
We are Saraswath Brahmins. Saraswaths and and Gowda Saraswaths are one and the same.
Thousands of years ago, in the present Rajasthan region, there was a holy river Saraswati. On the banks of this river (which was called the Saraswath Country) lived our ancestors, and because of their inhabitance in that region they were named Saraswaths. In course of time,owing to the repeated droughts, the River Saraswathi dried up and disappeared and our ancestors were compelled to leave that region forever and thus they migrated various parts of the country
Later , they lived in the Gowda Desh too (the present Bihar and Bangal), they had had an additional prefix of ‘Gowda’.
When Lord Parashurama (an ander Saraswath) raclaimed land from the Arabian
Sea, he invited our people to stay Gomantaka (Goa).
Our community flourished at Goa, we had to leave that place because the coercive methods of conversion adopted by the Portuguese.
Go-Maata
“To the Hindus there are three mothers: Mother (who gave birth); Gomaata (mother Cow) and Bhoomaata (Mother earth). Of all the animals, cow is the gentlest, Even though the child at infancy is dependent on its mother’s breasts for food, later in life cow’s milk forms one of the important items of the diet. Even modern science has admitted that the COW’S milk is the food with richest protein content. Then for our sacrifices, yaga and yajnas curd ghee and milk are supplied by cow”
H. H. Sudheendra Thirtha Swamiji