Vatsyayan Gotra

Vatsyayan Gotra is classified under the Saraswat Brahmin sect. They are generally concentrated in North India.

Origin

Origin of Vatsyayan Gotra is a very much debatable topic. The Vatsyayan Gotra is a genetic lineage of the Sage Vatsayan and his disciples in the Gurukul in Varanasi. Majority of the disciples were sent to the Himalayan Hindu kingdom to promote not only Hinduism, but to put an end to the pagan ritual sacrifices of the tribal lords in the Himalayan region. The vatsayan missionaries evolved the Tantric goddess Tara to yet another fertility goddess 'Kam-ek-he' worshipped in the Garo hills of the eastern Himalayan hills. The legend of Kamakhya believed to have appeared in the Kaliki Puran with the cult of 'Shakti' in the worship of fertility goddess. The temple of 'Kamakya' was destroyed in the Shan invasion in 12 C. The Vatsayan clans fled through the inner Himalaya to Kashmir. The Vatsayans in the Punjab region have descended from Kashmir. Families of Vatsyayan Gotra are said to have existed in the town of Pattan in Kashmir and later to a village named Gion in Kashmir, till the 11th century AD. Following annexations by the hands of Mughal Kings, they were forced to leave their places and migrate to Sind province,while the original migrants descended to the foothills of Shivalliks in remote hill forests to sanctify the fertility goddess, while others settled down near the towns of Kangra and Una of the Undivided Punjab or towns like Hosiyarpur.