Social Structure
Daivajñas are believed to have descended from migrant Magas, hence they are not classified under Gauḍādi Pañcaka in Kalhaṇa's Rājtaraṅgini. But they are accepted as Pancha-Dravida by Shringeri Shankaracharya.
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