Kota Brahmins

{{Short description|Hindu Brahmin subcaste, mainly from Karnataka}}

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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}

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|caption = Ugra Narasimha is the main deity of worship for Kota Brahmins

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|popplace=Karnataka, India

|langs=Mother tongue is Kota Kannada, a dialect of Kannada,{{cite book |author=Krishnendu Ray, Tulasi Srinivas |date=2012 |title=Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1kZBqJBjOgC&dq=Kota+Brahmins&pg=PA100 |publisher=University of California Press |page=100 |isbn=978-0520270114 |access-date=16 July 2015}} Tulu, Sanskrit

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Kota Brahmins are a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Karnataka. Kota Brahmins take their name from their native village Kota. They speak a Kannada dialect different from the other regional dialects. Kota Brahmins are mainly concentrated in the villages of Kota of Udupi district.{{cite book|title=South Kanara, 1799-1860: A Study in Colonial Administration and Regional Response|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0nZzbFDSAoC|page=25|author=N. Shyam Bhat|publisher=Mittal Publications|date=1 January 1998|isbn = 9788170995869}} Kotas follow Smarta tradition. The Guru Narasimha Temple, Saligrama is important to them.{{cite book|title=Karnataka State Gazetteer: South Kanara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jooBAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Director of Print., Stationery and Publications at the Government Press|year=1973|page=109|quote=The Kota Brahmins , so called from a village in the northern part of the Udipi taluk, are Smarthas.}}