Bahun
Bahun (Brahmin) (Nepali: बाहुन) are a group of people belonging to Brahmin caste in an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group. Generally, the Parvate/Pahari (hilly) Brahmins are known as Bahuns or Brahmins. They are Sub caste of the Kanyakubja Brahmin.[1][2][3] Bahuns mainly served as priests, teachers and astrologers. Bahuns were able to hold government offices, administration and politics later.
बाहुन (पहाडी ब्राह्मण/नेपाली ब्राह्मण) Bāhuna it (pahāḍī brāhmaṇa/nēpālī brāhmaṇa) | |
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   Top: Ranganath Paudyal · Bhanubhakta Acharya · Lekhnath Paudyal Bottom: BP Koirala · Sugam Pokharel · Manisha Koirala | |
| Total population | |
| 32 lakhs (12.2% of Nepal), as per Nepal Census 2011 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Nepal | |
| Languages | |
| Sanskrit language as mother tongue | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism (99% approx.) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Brahmin |
According to 1854 Muluki Ain (Legal Code) of Nepal, Bahuns belong to sacred thread bearers (Yagyopavit) and twice born (Dvija) Hindus.[4]
Bahun family names
Acharya (Kc), Adhikari, Amgain/Apagain, Aryal/Arjyel, Awasthi, Banjara, Bajgain, Banjade, Banskota, Banstola, Baral, Bartaula, Bastakoti, Brahmin Bhandari(not to be mistaken from Chhetri Bhandari), Bhatta, Bhattarai, Bhurtel, Bhusal, Chalise, Chataut, Chapagain, Chaugain, Chaulagain, Dangal, Dahal, Dawadi/Duwadi, Devkota, Dhakal, Dhital, Dhungana, Dhungel, Dixit, Dulal, Dumre, Gaire, Gautam, Ghimire, Ghorasaini, Guragain, Gyawali, Humagain, Jamarkattel, Joshi, Kafle, Kalauni, Kattel, Khanal, Khaniya, Kuikel, Khatiwada, Koirala, Lamichhane, Lamsal, Lekhak, Lohani, Luintel,Marasini, Mishra, Nepal, Neupane, Ojha, Oli, Padhya, Pandit, Paneru, Panta, Parajuli, Pathak, Phuyal, Pokharel/Pokhrel, Poudel/Paudyal/Poudar(hill), , Pudasaini, Pyakurel, Rijal, Rimal, Risal, Regmi, Rupakheti, Sanjel, , Sedhain, Sharma, , Sigdel, Subedi, Timsina/Timalsina/Timilsina, Tiwari, Tripathi, Trital, Upadhyaya, Wagle, Wasti/Osti etc
References
- ↑ Declan Quigley, David Gellner. Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste Among the Newars of Kathmandu. edited by David Gellner & Declan Quigley (in en) (2017)Macmillan and Company limited. p. 199.
- ↑ Chaturvedi, Shyam lal. In Fraternity with Nepal, An Account of the Activities Under the Auspices of the Wider Life Movement for the Furtherance and Consolidation of the Indo-Nepalese Cultural Fellowship (in en) (1945). p. 65.
- ↑ Hachhethu, Krishna. Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal (in en) (2023). p. 40.
- ↑ Serchan, Sanjaya. Democracy, Pluralism and Change (2001). ISBN 978-99933-54-39-0.