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gotra

go—trá n. (√ trai) protection or shelter for cows, cow-pen, cow-shed, stable for cattle, stable (in general), hurdle, enclosure, [RV.] (once m., [viii, 50, 10])


‘family enclosed by the hurdle’, family, race, lineage, kin, [ChUp.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Kauś.] &c. (a polysyllabic fem. in ī shortens this vowel before in comp. [e.g. brāhmaṇigotrā, ‘a Brāhman woman only by descent or name’, [Kāś.]] [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 43 ff.])


the family name, [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh. xiii, 548]; [VarBṛS.]


name (in general), [Śak. vi, 5]; [Ragh.] &c.


(in Gr.) the grandson and his descendants if no older offspring of the same ancestor than this grandson lives (if the son lives the grandson is called yuvan), [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 63]; [iv, 1, 89 ff.] and [162 ff.]; [2, 111] and [3, 80] and [126]


an affix used for forming a patr. [L.]


a tribe, subdivision (in the Brāhman caste 49 Gotras are reckoned and supposed to be sprung from and named after celebrated teachers, as Śāṇḍilya, Kaśyapa, Gautama, Bharad-vāja, &c.), [W.]


a genus, class, species, [W.]


a multitude, [L.]


increase, [L.]


possession, [L.]


a forest, [L.]


a field, [L.]


an umbrella or parasol, [L.]


knowledge of probabilities, [L.]


go—trá (as), m. a mountain (a meaning probably derived fr. -bhíd), [BhP. ii], [iii], [vi]


a cloud (cf. -bhíd), [Naigh. i, 10]


a road, [L.]


go-trá &c. See [ib.], col. 3.