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| The '''Brahman-Hill''' or ''Khas Bahun'' is the colloquial Nepali term for a member of the hill or mountain ] ], the traditional caste of educators, scholars and priests in ]. This ethnic group of ] makes up 12.5% of the country's population. | |||
| The Brahmins were a powerful group in medieval and modern Nepal and ] until the 19th century. By tradition and even according to civil law until about 1960 it was the highest of four Hindu ''varna'' or castes. Nepal's present constitution rejects such hierarchical categorizations. | |||
| According to Nepal's foremost historian ] and Professor Suryamani Adhikary of ] almost all of the ]s are ] descendents, i.e. a Nepalese Bahun's race is ], and caste is Brahmin, other castes of Khas people being ], ] and ].<br /> | |||
| Exclusive of the indigenous ''janajati'' ethnic groups of ], ], ], ], ], ] and others in the Middle Hills, Bahuns comprise about 31% of the Hindu population. The ] or ''Kshatriya'' and ] castes comprise 42%. Service castes like blacksmiths, goldsmiths, tailors, musicians, tanners and cobblers and sweepers make up only 27%. This distribution is far more biased towards upper castes than with Hindu populations in Nepal's ] and adjacent parts of]. | |||
| The English word ''brahmin'' is an anglicised form of the Sanskrit word Brāhmaṇa, "having to do with Brahman (Sanskrit: ब्रह्म) or divine knowledge". Bahuns are also called Brahmins, ''Vipra'' "learned", or ''Dvija'' "twice-born". | |||
| In ] sources written in ] and ], including ]n inscriptions, they are also called ''Babhans'', which is the Pali word for Bahuns. | |||
| The Brahman caste includes numerous family names such as: | |||
| * Awasthi, Acharya, Adhikari, Aryal/Arjyal/Arjel | |||
| * Bastakoti, Bhattarai, Bastola, Bhurtel, Bhandari, Bhatta, Baral, Basyal, | |||
| * Chalise, Chaulagain, Chapagain | |||
| * Dahal, ], Dhungel, Devkota, Dhungana, Dallakoti, Dumre | |||
| * Gajurel, Gautam, Gurangain, Ghimire | |||
| * Humagain | |||
| * ] | |||
| * Kafle, Kharel, Khatiwada, Koirala, Kandel, Kalakheti, Khanal, Kattuwal | |||
| * Lamsal, Lamichhane | |||
| * Mishra, Marasheni | |||
| * Nepal, Neupane, Nyaupane, Niraula | |||
| * Ojha, Oli | |||
| * Paudyal (पौड्याल), Pokhrel, ], Pandit, Pandey, Phuyal, Pudasiani, Pyakurel, Pant, Pathak, Pageni | |||
| * Regmi | |||
| * Sharma, Subedi, Sapkota, Sangraula | |||
| * Tiwari, Timilsina, Tripathi | |||
| * Wagle | |||
| * Upadhyaya, Upreti, Uprety | |||
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