Mention any two features of gotra as per the Brahmanical practice. What evidences do we get from the Satavahanas inscriptions regarding the inheriance of gotra ? Explain.

Mention any two features of gotra as per the Brahmanical practice. Wha

1.	Mention any two features of gotra as per the Brahmanical practice. What evidences do we get from the Satavahanas inscriptions regarding the inheriance of gotra ? Explain.
Answer» Solution : (i) Every gotra was NAMED after a Vedicseer. All those who BELONGED to the same gotra were considered as his descendants. (ii) WOMEN were expected to give up their father's gotra and adopt that of their husband on marriage and members of the same gotra could not marty. (iii) Many inscriptions of the Satavahanas have been recovered, which allow historians to trace family bonds. (iv) Some of the women who married SATAVAHANA rulers had names of their father's gotras Gotama and Vasistha. They retained these INSTEAD of adopting names detived from their husband's gotra.