Gotra and Pravara (गोत्रप्रवरश्च)

As a part of nitya sandhyavandana, person has to repeat the names of his ancestral rshis (three times a day) to show his lineage and this is known as Pravara. Whenever a person visits Peetha Adhipatis, when he has to perform a yajna, prayers to invoke deities, homas and such sacred activities, he has to recite the names of