Samaga

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Samaga is the family title of the descendants of Sosale Venkatanarayan Shrouti.The title was bestowed upon Shrouti by the Sringeri Swamiji in the late 19th century.This recognition was for Shrouti's scholarly excellence in Samaveda.Thus Samaga is a person who is an expert in samaveda.His books were the prescribed textbooks at various Sanskrit colleges.All the descendants of Shrouti then adopted Samaga as the family name. + Samaga is surname of some of the shivalli brahmins of Udupi. The surname may have derived from brahmins who follow samaveda or has considerable knowledge of samaveda. - - Venkatanarayan Shrouti's only son was Samaga Venkataramana Shrouti, who later became an Amildar in the Government of Mysore.He held a BA(Hons.)degree in English. - - Venkataramaswamy was Venkataramana Shrouti's only son.He had an excellent academic career and was one of the first persons to get a degree in Electronics and Communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.He had a distinguished career in All India Radio and retired in 1970 as a Senior Engineer.He married Rukmini in 1935 and the couple had four sons.