Kulavruttant:

The inscriptions on the copper plates excavated during 1060/1061 AD, reference to the donations made by the then rulers to the Brahmins by name ‘Bhat’, ‘Ghaisas’ and ‘Deval’ is found. In the ‘Bakhar’ of ‘Mahikavati’, in year 1139 AD, brahmins named ‘Devdhar’ and ‘Chatre’ accompanied the troop of Brahmins who visited the kingdom of ‘Pratapbimba’ to bless him on the occasion of his coronation. Also a reference is found to the services of a Brahmin named ‘Patwardhan’ during the times of ‘Shilahar’s being continued by the next ruler ‘Pratapbimba’. A reference is also available

Pratapbimba’. A reference is also available evidencing the excavation of a leveled lake done by a brahmin named ‘Anantbhatt (Vasudevbhatt) Chitale to make available ample drinking water to the residents of the place named ‘Basni’ near ‘Ratnagiri’. Bhat, Ghaisas, Deval, Devdhar, Chatre, Patwardhan, and Chitale are the surnames most common only among the Chitpavans and not in any other Brahmin castes settled in Maharashtra. This is evidence enough to assume the existence of the ‘Chitpavans’ in Maharashtra from times as early as eleventh century.

A place called ‘Roopkund’ at an altitude of 5540 m, in the Garhwal region in Himachal Pradesh is always well covered with snow. It came into limelight in the year 1942 The experts from the University of oxford carried out many tests like ‘Carbon dating’ on these skeletons to finally arrive at a conclusion that the skeletons were of persons living during year 850 AD. The ‘Centre for cellular and molecular biology’ at Hydrabad carried out DNA tests on the skeletons only to conclude that these skeletons belonged to the Chitpavan Brahmins.

According to the research published by Dr. D.V. Jog, the first and second ‘Pulkeshi’ kings brought the  Citpavans to Konkan region during the period  535-642 AD to perform the ‘Paurohitya’ of the ‘Havans’ or ‘Yadnya’s performed by them.to conclude, as mentioned earlier, Chitpavans must have migrated from the regions of Kutch, Rajasthan to North in the peninsula of Ganga and Yamuna or to the south to the Konkan region or even further south to Karnatak and Tamilnadu after the famine of 200 BC.

Thus it would not be out of place to assume that the migration of the Chitpavans started from the year 200BC i.e. 2000 years ago and even continued thereafter for many a reasons. The site 1880 Gazeteers of Bombay Residency-Ratnagiri and Sawantwadi has the most authentic and official reference to their