Our goals is to make Sourashtra Community recognized by all people as a powerful and united group.

Through Sourashtra Group and Sourashtra.com – We aim to connect people and achieve different goals listed below.

- Business Networking
- Careers
- Matrimonials
- Education
- Health

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The first part of the conference was celebrated as ‘Sri Ramakrishnar Vizha’. The second part was celebrated as ‘Sri Sarada Devi Vizha’ on 5th December and on the same day the third part was celebrated as ‘Swami Vivekananda Vizha’. People from all corners of the state took part in the conference.

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Sourashtra Community members living in the Indian States of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu (mainly in cities Madurai and Salem), speak this language and use its script. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of languages.

In Hindi ‘Sou’ means 100 and ‘Rashtra’ means region. Put together they mean a province of 100 regions. Linguists today have been able to trace the origins of the Sourashtra language to the language spoken by the people of Sourashtra, though the script that is spoken and written there today is mostly Gujarati, while the Sourashtra script is more of Marathi, Konkani, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. This difference is because both Gujarati and Sourashtra has a common parent language, but in course of time the Sourashtra language diversified and imbibed the elements that we see in it today. It is also felt that the vocabulary and grammar of this language is mainly from Sanskrit.

There are some very noted features of this script. First is the syllabic alphabet, which includes all consonants infused with a vowel. The vowel can be changed through the use of diacritics, place before, below or above the consonant. The second most noted characteristic is that vowel appearing in the beginning of a syllable are written out as independent letters.

As of today, this language is not taught in schools and is just spoken by members of the community. There are various dialects for this language each of which are used by Sourashtrians living in their respective areas. This lends an even more unique feature to this ancient language.

The procedure is as follows.

• Nowra Nowri Seelariya
• Phool Function or Vida Paan Machulariya and Boulas
• Ghetti Kellariyo
• Muhurtu Ghallariyo
• Devgas
• Horad

Usually the nowra sits on a three–legged stool and ties the bottu (Thaali) around the nowri’s neck and they will be facing each other.

After the wedding, the nowra and nowri have food in their respective halls. This is the reason why most of the Sourashtrians rent two halls for the wedding.

M.N. Rajam and Devadas are other notable artists from the Sourashtra community.

It is also notable that popular playback singers like T.M. Soundara Rajan, A.L. Raghavan, and S.C. Krishnan also belong to the Sourashtra community. They have the talent of pronouncing Tamil very accurately and clearly.

Angu updates churum kerus.

Father’s elder brother & his wife – Mottobo & Motombo
Father’s younger brother & his wife – Nannobo & Nannambo
Mother’s elder brother & his wife  – Mamo & Mami
Mother’s younger brother & his wife – Mamo & Mami
Father’s elder sister & her husband – Bei & Bhavo
Father’s younger sister & her husband – Bei & Bhavo
Mother’s elder sister & her husband – Mousi & Mouso
Mother’s younger sister & her husband – Mousi & Mouso
Father’s mother – Ammo
Father’s father – Iyyo
Mother’s mother – Aingir ambo
Mother’s father – Ainger bo
Husband’s mother – Sasu (But we call her Mami)
Husband’s father – Sosuro (But we call her Mamo)
Friend – Singadhi or Singeidh
Daughter’s husband – Jomai (We call them as Mapla)
Son’s wife – Bhovundi (Usually we don’t call like this, we call them by their own names)
Younger Sister’s husband – Mapla
Elder Sister’s husband – Bhavo
Elder brother’s wife – Bhavi
Younger brother’s wife – Usually call them by their names
Husband’s elder sister – Neyendhu (We call them as Bei)
Husband’s younger sister – Neyendhu (We call them as Bhei if they are elder than us or we call them by their names)

More research left.

Angu ovva time khollo avi savo.

Father – Bo
Mother – Ambo
Elder Sister – Bei
Younger Sister – Mai
Elder brother – Dhadho
Younger brother – Bhai
Husband – Dhallo
Wife – Bail
Daughter – Bedi
Son – Bedo
Uncle – Mamo
Aunty – Mami
Sister-in-law – Bhavi
Brother-in-law – Bhavo

Ungo research kelley sethe.  I will update more relationships shortly.

The whole event is very colorful. The bridegroom’s family and relatives assemble on that day in the house of the groom at a place designated for the Pooja. The Kula Deivam of the family is appeased by the way of offering Pongal in five Bhonnos. The groom is dressed up in a special attire of Haladu Dhoti in Panchakachham style. His head will be crowned with a special garland made of fresh lemons and flowers tied up with black thread. The flowers will be hanging like Sarams in between. His hands will be adorned with flowers and covered with Bigith and Sirkan. He will be wearing a fresh flower garland. His face will be wholly covered with Bigith except for the eyes. Along with a bright Javvadu Bottu on his forehead he will look totally different!

With a heavy crown of Limboos and phool sarams hanging from the head he will be carrying a tray with Bigith, going around the crowd doling out the Bigith and at the same time accepting the Kanikkas offered by the relatives. At the end of the procession he will place the tray with donations in front of the Deity and offer his Sashtanga Namaskar. After a formal Pooja he will give away bananas and milk as Prasadam to the gatherers.

The contribution collected will then be divided into two. One half would be offered to the Kula Deivam and the balance, considered to be the gift from Him would be utilized for meeting a part of the wedding expenses.

As such the whole function would go on for a couple of hours. However, in the event of anybody getting a Dev on his Aangu it might take even more time, which is not uncommon!