Thursday, August 20, 2009

This article is about Vishwakarma community of Indian state of tamilnadu(telugu)

Vishwakarma Manu Maya Brahmins, popularly known as Chari (‘च्यारी’) is a community of artisans in the Indian state of Goa. They are the traditional Hindu carpenter in Goa.The Chari is corrupt form of the word Acharya (Sanskrit: आचार्य) which means the teacher of religion. Surname Acharya is still present in Chari in some part of south India. Those Chari who has left Goa long ago has a surname as Charya (Sanskrit: चार्य)[citation needed]. So in short Chari derived from Acharya -Charya- Chari. Since Portuguese have ruled Goa for 450 years, the surname Chari is only present in Goa. They are also referred as ‘Sutar’ which has derived from Sanskrit word ‘Sutradhar’ which means the designer in Ancient India. Sometimes they are referred as ‘mest’ or ‘thavoi’[a] which means carpenter & stapathi respectively. Those who were good artist were called as ‘Fishal’. For some Chari Portuguese gave surname as Zo which means artist.

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