Guha (Bengali: গুহ, romanized: Guho) is a Bengali Kayastha surname found among the Bengali Hindus of India and Bangladesh. It is also another name for the Hindu deity Kartikeya .

Guhas mostly belong to Kayastha caste in Bengal. The Bengali Kayasthas evolved as a caste from a category of officials, between the 5th/6th century AD and 11th/12th century AD, its component elements being putative Kshatriyas and mostly Brahmins.[1] Guhas (and Guhathakurtas[2]) are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Kashyapa gotra, along with Boses, Ghoshes and Mitras.[3]

People with the name

See also

References

  1. Andre Wink (1991). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 269. ISBN 978-90-04-09509-0. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  2. http://www.shram.org/uploadFiles/20171208110232.pdf
  3. Hopkins, Thomas J. (1989). "The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West". In Bromley, David G.; Shinn, Larry D. (eds.). Krishna consciousness in the West. Bucknell University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8387-5144-2. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.