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Identifier	Description
Town communidade (e.g., Lotli, Kudtari)	Ancient system of male hereditary town governance in which each of the original founder families of the town owns a share (vote) with land ownership rights and tax obligations
Vangor	A share (vote) in a communidade that is a patrilineal lineage, often using a single surname
Brahmins	Members of an ancient hereditary male priestly caste codified in the first millennium BCE
Saraswat Brahmins	The most ancient of all Brahmins, associated with the eponymous Sarasvati River and Sarasvata tribe
Goud Saraswat Brahmins (GSB)	An endogamous branch of the Saraswat Brahmin community formed by early medieval (8th–10th century CE) migration event(s) to Goa, in Western India
Gotra (e.g., Kaundinya)	Ancient Brahmin system of tracking patrilineage; gotra is exogamous; that is, a member must marry outside it; this system has been strictly observed for millennia
Kuldev/clan deity (e.g., Ramnath)	Ancient tradition in which a GSB clan maintains a primary deity at a single place of worship; this is a reliable characteristic for tracking family lineages
Lotli Pai Kaundinya (LPK)	GSB founder families of Lotli communidade of Kaundinya gotra, with the surname of “Pai”