Chitpavan History
Konkan region of Maharashtra is also called as Parshuram-Bhumi. It is believed that after having fought a long battle with the Kshtriyas, Bhagwan Parshuram arrived in this barren and deserted land of Konkan for rest. Water is termed Jeevan (Life) in Sanskrit as no living being can survive without it. As such the human civilizations were predominantly around the banks of rivers. Chiplun is a city in the peninsula of ‘Vashisthi’ and ‘Savitri’. The literal meaning of the Sanskrit word ‘Chitpolan’ is burning the land to make it cultivable. It is believed that Parshuram got with him Brahmins of 14 ‘Gotras’ to purify the land in this manner. The land so recovered was named after the process ‘Chitpolan’, the word which later degenerated to ‘Chiplun’. The other line of thinking is the cast ‘Chitpavan’ originated from ‘Kshitipavan’ which again means purification (Pavan) of the land (Kshiti).
Migration
Ravbahadur Sane contradicted with this viewpoint offering some traditional evidences and stated that the name ‘Chitpavan’ could not have emerged from the name of a place.
Ravbahadur Sane contradicted with this viewpoint offering some traditional evidences and stated that the name ‘Chitpavan’ could not have emerged from the name of a place.
Ravbahadur Sane contradicted with this viewpoint offering some traditional evidences and stated that the name ‘Chitpavan’ could not have emerged from the name of a place.
The historians following the Hindu religious books of Puranas, which contain diverse myths, are emphatic about the settlement of the Chitpavans by the Rishi Bhagwan Parshuram in the Konkan region of the State of Maharashtra in India.
The historians following the Hindu religious books of Puranas, which contain diverse myths, are emphatic about the settlement of the Chitpavans by the Rishi Bhagwan Parshuram in the Konkan region of the State of Maharashtra in India.
The historians following the Hindu religious books of Puranas, which contain diverse myths, are emphatic about the settlement of the Chitpavans by the Rishi Bhagwan Parshuram in the Konkan region of the State of Maharashtra in India.