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'''Sahyādrikhaṇḍa''' or '''Sahyadri Khand''', written in [[Sanskrit]],and is considered as part of [[Skanda Purana|Skandapurāṇa]].<ref name="skh">{{cite book|last=Rao|first=Nagendra |title=Brahmanas of South India |pages=149–161|chapter=The Sahyādri khaṇḍa}}</ref><ref name=shastri>Shastri, P. (1995) ''Introduction to the Puranas'', New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, pp.118-20</ref> It contains the legend of the origin of the [[Chitpavan Brahmin]]s and [[Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu]]s, Migration of [[Saraswat Brahmins]] from Trihotra to Goa along with Parashurama and the origin of Karade Brahmins.<ref>{{cite book|last1=da Cunha|first1=J. Gerson|title=The Sahyâdri-khaṇḍa of the Skanda purâṃa : a mythological, historical, and geographical account of western India ; first edition of the Sanskrit texts with various readings|date=1877|publisher=Thacker, Vining, & Co.|location=Bombay}}</ref>
'''Sahyādrikhaṇḍa''' or '''Sahyadri Khand''', written in [[Sanskrit]], and is considered as part of [[Skanda Purana|Skandapurāṇa]].<ref name="skh">{{cite book|last=Rao|first=Nagendra |title=Brahmanas of South India |pages=149–161|chapter=The Sahyādri khaṇḍa}}</ref><ref name=shastri>Shastri, P. (1995) ''Introduction to the Puranas'', New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, pp.118-20</ref> It contains the legend of the origin of the [[Chitpavan Brahmin]]s and [[Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu]]s, Migration of [[Saraswat Brahmins]] from Trihotra to Goa along with Parashurama and the origin of Karade Brahmins.<ref>{{cite book|last1=da Cunha|first1=J. Gerson|title=The Sahyâdri-khaṇḍa of the Skanda purâṃa : a mythological, historical, and geographical account of western India; first edition of the Sanskrit texts with various readings|date=1877|publisher=Thacker, Vining, & Co.|location=Bombay}}</ref>


The ''Sahyadri-khanda'' includes disparate texts that date from 5th to 13th centuries, and have been organized as part of a single text relatively recently.<ref>{{cite book |author=Alexander Henn |title=Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cFZ_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |year=2014 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-01300-2 |page=87 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=D. R. Amladi |title=Tuḷajāpūr Bhavānī |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nk9AAAAIAAJ |year=1961 |publisher=Maharashtra State |oclc=7037412 |page=9 |quote=But it is very well known that the Sahyadri Khanda is of recent date and an interpolation and as such has little historical importance. }}</ref>
The ''Sahyadri-khanda'' includes disparate texts that date from 5th to 13th centuries, and have been organized as part of a single text relatively recently.<ref>{{cite book |author=Alexander Henn |title=Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cFZ_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |year=2014 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-01300-2 |page=87 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=D. R. Amladi |title=Tuḷajāpūr Bhavānī |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nk9AAAAIAAJ |year=1961 |publisher=Maharashtra State |oclc=7037412 |page=9 |quote=But it is very well known that the Sahyadri Khanda is of recent date and an interpolation and as such has little historical importance. }}</ref>


==Description==
==Description==
There is an elaborate description about the creation of [[Konkan|Paraśurāma kṣetra]]. In one place the land is stated to have been created by [[Parashurama|Paraśurāma]] by shooting an arrow,<ref name="cun">{{cite book|last=Da Cunha|first=J. Gerson|title=Skandapurāṇantargata|year=1877|pages=8, 325–326, 331|chapter=Sahyādrikhaṇḍa}}</ref> while in another place the land is created by throwing an axe. Experts in the field of Archaeology feel that the place where Parashurama's arrow landed is believed to be the present day Goa.<ref name="cun"/> The [[Kannada language|Kannaḍa]] version contains a brief chapter called as ''Grāmapaddhati'' which describes [[Brahmin|Brāhmaṇa]] family names and villages, contradicting the original text that describes narrations and stories of different types of fallen Brāhmaṇas.<ref name="skh"/> According to ''Y.C.Bhānumati'' the Kannaḍa version has no similarities with Sanskrit Sahyādrikhaṇḍa.{{fact|date=April 2017}}{{dubious|date=April 2017}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Sahyādrikhaṇḍa|editor=Y.C.Bhānumati|location=Mysore|year=1984|language=Kannada}}</ref> Many other versions are found in [[Marathi language|Marāṭhī]], [[Hindi]] and English.
There is an elaborate description about the creation of [[Konkan|Paraśurāma kṣetra]]. In one place the land is stated to have been created by [[Parashurama|Paraśurāma]] by shooting an arrow,<ref name="cun">{{cite book|last=Da Cunha|first=J. Gerson|title=Skandapurāṇantargata|year=1877|pages=8, 325–326, 331|chapter=Sahyādrikhaṇḍa}}</ref> while in another place the land is created by throwing an axe. Experts in the field of Archaeology feel that the place where Parashurama's arrow landed is believed to be the present day Goa.<ref name="cun"/> The [[Kannada language|Kannaḍa]] version contains a brief chapter called as ''Grāmapaddhati'' which describes [[Brahmin|Brāhmaṇa]] family names and villages, contradicting the original text that describes narrations and stories of different types of fallen Brāhmaṇas.<ref name="skh"/> According to ''Y.C.Bhānumati'' the Kannaḍa version has no similarities with Sanskrit Sahyādrikhaṇḍa.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}{{dubious|date=April 2017}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Sahyādrikhaṇḍa|editor=Y.C.Bhānumati|location=Mysore|year=1984|language=Kannada}}</ref> Many other versions are found in [[Marathi language|Marāṭhī]], [[Hindi]] and English.


==Chapters==
==Chapters==
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The chapters are as follows:<ref name="skh"/>
The chapters are as follows:<ref name="skh"/>
*The origin of [[Chitpavan|Chitpāvana Brāhmaṇas]] (Sanskrit Version of Sahyādrikhaṇḍa and in copies of same Khaṇḍa found in South India,do not have any reference about Chitpāvanas)<ref name="skh"/>  
*The origin of [[Chitpavan|Chitpāvana Brāhmaṇas]] (Sanskrit Version of Sahyādrikhaṇḍa and in copies of same Khaṇḍa found in South India, do not have any reference about Chitpāvanas)<ref name="skh"/>  
*The origin of [[Karhade|Karhāḍa Brāhmaṇas]] (not a part of the Sanskrit version)<ref name="skh"/>
*The origin of [[Karhade|Karhāḍa Brāhmaṇas]] (not a part of the Sanskrit version)<ref name="skh"/>
*The Glory of Gomañcalakṣetra<ref name="cun"/>
*The Glory of Gomañcalakṣetra<ref name="cun"/>
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