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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Community of Brahmins in India}}<br />
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{{Infobox ethnic group<br />
| group = Babburkamme<br />
| image = [[File:Shri Shankaracharya.jpg|180px]]<br />
| caption = [[Adi Shankaracharya]], an influential expounder of the smarta parampara and Vedanta.<br />
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| popplace = [[India]]n states of [[Karnataka]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| langs = Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu,<br />
| rels = [[Hinduism]]<br />
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[[Sampradaya]]: [[Smarthas]]<br />
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[[Sutra]]: [[Apastamba Dharmasutra|Apasthamba]]<br />
| related_groups = [[Pancha-Dravida]], [[Kannada Brahmin]], [[Telugu Brahmin]], [[Maharashtrian brahmin]], [[Tamil Brahmin]]<br />
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The '''Babburkamme''' (also spelled '''Babbur Kamme''', '''Bobburukamme''', '''Babboor Kamme''') are a community of [[Brahmin]]s in southern India.<ref>{{cite book |title=Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town |first=Leela |last=Prasad |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2012 |page=85 |isbn=978-0-23151-127-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZcdTw0toXsC&pg=PA85}}</ref> They are followers of the [[Smarta]] tradition of [[Vedanta]]. They have held politically influential position such ministers, chief priests, scholars and poets under different kingdoms. A related community, today known as ''Uluchukamme'', has Kannada as their mother tongue.<br />
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Babburkammes are present in the Karnataka towns of [[Bangalore|Bengaluru]], [[Mysore|Mysuru]], [[Holenarasipura]], [[Konanur, Hassan|Konanur]], [[Arkalgud]], [[Bellur]], [[Kanakatte]], [[Mirle]], [[Arasikere]], [[Belavadi]], [[Mayasandra]], [[Bettadapura]], [[Davangere]], [[Shivamogga]], [[Chikkamagaluru]], and [[Bhadravati, Karnataka|Bhadravati]]. Given their historical presence in the south of India, they are categorized as [[Pancha-Dravida|Pancha Dravida]] Brahmins.<br />
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== History ==<br />
Their tradition is rooted in the pre-Buddhist [[Apastamba Dharmasutra|Apastamba sutras]], a [[Kalpa (Vedanga)|kalpa]] [[vedanga]] and the oldest [[Dharmasutra]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Āpastamba |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gnVxqvPg9a0C |title=The Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Ancient India |date=1999-09-02 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-283882-7 |language=en}}</ref> of ancient India originating plausibly around the river [[Godavari River|Godavari]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lingat |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sauo8iSIj7YC |title=Les sources du droit dans le système traditionnel de l'Inde |last2=Studies |first2=University of California, Berkeley Center for South and Southeast Asia |date=1973-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-01898-3 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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Babburkammes are followers of the [[Smarta tradition|Smarta]] tradition, which is closely associated with the [[Advaita]] tradition of [[Adi Shankara]] and [[Sringeri Sharada Peetham|Sringeri]]. Kamme is derived from 'Karmin' (Karmigalu in Kannada) meaning those who practice "Vaidika Dharma".<br />
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The migration pattern reflects the various Hindu kingdoms and economic centres of their times. Over the last 100 years, the local migration appears to be from small-towns to [[Mysore]] and Bangalore, and in recent years to other parts of the world. This trend seems to be coherent with migration patterns of other service-providing communities in the region.<br />
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Babburkammes place strong emphasis on education and political influence.<br />
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Due to their history, most in the community do not have significant ancestral land or other fixed assets (unlike the business or warrior communities, for example) and therefore formal education is seen as a pathway to success. In addition, and perhaps as a result of advanced education, the community is quite progressive in its outlook. <br />
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The founder of the [[Vijayanagara Empire|Vijayanaga Empire]], [[Sri Vidyaranya]], belonged to the community. Later, his brothers, Madhavacharya and [[Sāyaṇa|Sayanacharya]], contributed to Hinduism by documenting the [[Vedas]] and [[Upanishads]] for the first time (hitherto it was spread from [[guru]] to [[shishya]]). <br />
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[[File:Raja Ravi Varma - Sankaracharya.jpg|thumb|Followers of [[Adi Shankara]]]]<br />
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== Culture ==<br />
The mother tongue of majority Babburkamme Brahmins is mostly Kannada and Sanskrit as claimed by some. They are striclty vegetarian (no restriction to use milk, leather and horns).<br />
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== Deities and festivals ==<br />
The main deity of Babburkammes is dependent on the family deity or Ishta-Deva. Those deities can be [[Venkateswara|Srinivasa]], Shiva-Shakti, Laxmi-Narayana but, being followers of [[Advaita Vedanta|Advaita]] [[Smarta tradition|Smartism]], Babburkammes worship all the major forms of God in Hinduism including [[Shiva]], [[Vishnu]], [[Ganesha]], Parvati, Vagdevi, Laxmi, Durga, and Karthikeya.<br />
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Babburkamme offer [[Panchayatana puja]] worship, introduced by Adi Shankara, and celebrate all the festivals of the [[Kingdom of Mysore|Mysore region]]. They have [[Shaiva]], [[Vaishnava]] and [[Shakta]] leanings.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Kannada Brahmins]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Karnataka]]</div>KareemOman9338