Godbole is a surname from Kokanastha
Brahmins or Chitpavan Brahmins from Western
Maharashtra (Western Coast of India) and also used by
Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins.
Origins
Godbole family may include descendants of Caucasian people from the
Ashkenaz area and
Scythian immigrants into India (
Indo-Scythians) who were Hindus at the time of migration (approx 5000 years ago). They are generally fair and have light
eye color. Godboles have no connection whatsoever with Arabs, Irish or the British.
Family Deity
Their family deity (or) Kuladeivat are
Shree Vyadeshwara,
Shree Durga Devi at
Guhagar,
Shree MahaLaxmi at
Kolhapur and
Shree Meruling. Also there is a branch of Godboles who have Shri Durgadevi of Vayangani (near Ratnagiri) as their Kuladevi.
Godboles have origins dating thousands of years ago from Devache Gothane, Guhagar, Pawas, Ganpati Pule, Vayangani and other parts of the great Maharashtrian
Konkan coast. Now, there are a large number of them in
Mumbai and
Pune as well as other places. There is a book written on the Godbole family, lineage, migration, genetics, origins, etc named Godbole kulavruttant.
Godbole family tree can be traced back to Indo-Aryan Sages such as Koushika (Kausika was one of the names of
Visvamitra)
Gotra Koushik.
A popular myth mentions that the Godbole are descendents of the
Parashurama (the 6th avatar of Lord Vishnu) who are...
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