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Warrier (Warrier/Varier/Variyar) is a South Indian, Hindu caste of the Ambalavasi (temple-personnel) community from Kerala, India. They are engaged to assist the Namboodiri priests in temple-related chores, primarily catering to the floral requirements and daily maintenance of the temple.〔().〕 A few variars have also served as ministers(diwans) in erstwhile princely states of Kerala. ==Origin== There is a range of theories of the origin of a separate caste of variars. Some of the theories are mythological, while the others give more down-to-earth explanations. In some books it is mentioned that Variyars derive from the marriage of a Brahmin men with a shudra women.They are said to be corrupt form of parasiva. According to Jati-nirnaya, variyars were originally Brahmins, who were degraded during the Treta-yuga, and they belong to the group of ambalavasis called bharatabhattaraka. A bhattaraka was a Jain head of monastery, and it is possible that as with the pisharodys, the Jain-Buddhist traditions in kerala which were squashed after Adi-Shankaracharya and the Bhakti movement, left a respectable group of monastery administrators, who were inducted into temples to help the priest in his activities. Another account is given in Kerala Mahatmya "A young Brahman girl was married to an aged man. Not confident in unaided human effort, under circumstances such as hers, she devoted a portion of her time daily to preparing flower garlands for the deity of the nearest temple, and conceived. But the Brahman welcomed the little stranger by getting the mother thrown out of caste. Her garlands could no longer be accepted, but, nothing daunted, she worked as usual, and made a mental offering of the garlands she prepared, which, through an unseen agency, became visible on the person of the deity. Though the people were struck with shame at their unkind treatment of the innocent girl, they were not prepared to take her back. The Variyan caste was accordingly constituted, and her child was brought up by �the Azhvanchery Thamprakkal, and accommodated in the padippura or out-house at the entrance gate. " Another theory is that warriers being Kailasa gotra are direct descendants Of Lord Shiva from kailas . So coming from North part of India though they were Shaivaites va arya(i.e. are they aryas) a doubt was there in south and they were named as 'warriers later. So they are Shaivaites and their moola mantra is a sloka meditating on Lord Shiva as a family man( Moole Kalpadrumasya...) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Variar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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