Sadangi

Sadangi
Village
Country	India
State	Odisha
Languages
• Official	Oriya
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	758046
Website	kendujhar.nic.in

Sadangi is a village in Kendujhar District in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kendujhar district.

Sadangi, (Sanskrit:षडङ्गी),(Oriya:ଷଡଙ୍ଗୀ) are a sub-group of Utkala Brahmin who have Oriya as their mother tongue. They inhabit mainly the coastal and deltaic area of Orissa. Later on, large numbers of Sadangi families migrated to Garjat regions, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.They belong to Shrauta/vedic class Brahmins.The Brahmins following Shrauta/vedic tradition, have right to read and teach Vedas and hence are known as Vedic Brahmins or Namaskaraniya.Their surname is derived from that they once specialised on the six Vedangas of Samaveda (Sanskrit:सामवेद षडङ्ग). They generally follow Kauthuma Shaakha (କୌଥୁମ୍ନ ଶାଖା) of Samaveda.Samavedis follow mainly Khadira grihya sutra, Drahyayana shrauta, and Naradiya Shiksha. Some also follow Gobhilya grihya.

Geography

Sadangi is a landlocked village situated in the northern part of Keonjhar, surrounded by Jyotipur panchayat of Jyotipur in the north, Jajapasi in the south, Unchabali and Bhanda in the west and Turumunga in the east.

Demographics

As of 2011 India census,^[1] Kendujhar (Keonjhar) District : Census 2011 data

Sadangi village overview

An official Census 2011 detail of Sadangi, a village of Keonjhar has been released by Directorate of Census Operations in Orissa. Enumeration of key persons was also done by census officials in Kendujhar District of Orissa.

Education

• School and college in sadangi GP include:
• Sadangi UP school
• Sadangi M.E school
• M.K.G High school, sadangi
• M.K.G college, sadangi

Places to visit

Sadangi Shiv Mandir Hanuman Temple

See also

• Sahoo
• Utkala Brahmin
• Dash (Oriya surname)
• Mohapatra
• Prusty
• Behera
• Sahu
• Kar
• Mishra
• Naik
• Mohanta

References