Kaul
Surname first submitted by: Ashwani Kaul
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Masood Magrey says Junaid no difference the name can be written as Koul or Kaul. The word is from Sanskrit. My family name is Magrey. It origins are from Sanskrit Magasa (warrier). An indigeneous Kashmiri warrior tribe. Earlier people wrote Magasa like Ladda Magasa later it became Magrey.

Comment was made 7 years ago
Masood Magrey says Junaid no difference the name can be written as Koul or Kaul. The word is from Sanskrit. My family name is Magrey. It origins are from Sanskrit Magasa (warrier). An indigeneous Kashmiri warrior tribe. Earlier people wrote Magasa like Ladda Masaga later it became Magrey.

Comment was made 7 years ago
Junaid Kaul says Two variations of this name exist Koul and Kaul. I am not aware of any difference between the two, but would like to know if there is a difference. my contect 0312-9047512 At Muzaffarabad Azad Kashmier

Comment was made 9 years ago
Draken Kartikay Wan Kaul says Okay. I was told by mom that we are descendants of datattraiya the vansh of the trimurti. Long story can't tell. Hehe

Comment was made 9 years ago
Naveed Altaf Koul says m also koul bt muslim nd i knw u also might b thnkng how, wen etc. as every1 use to ask me the sme qstn. nd every time i cldn't xplain or give prpr answr to their qstns. bt i hav find a gr8 hnur in using ma surnme as koul...i want to knw lot more abt this surname plz...

Comment was made 11 years ago
Advaith says Koul...apart from above info, koul/kaul could also be followers of Kaula system of Kashmir Shaivism..

Comment was made 11 years ago
Chand Kaul says Kaul sirname means 'well born' and came from the priest or high priest background. Mahakaul or the great Kauls is another name for Lord Shiva, and this could also be one of the origins of this name. There are Kauls in Germanic countries too and one of the drivations of the Germanic Kauls is from the Bishop or priests. Just a coincidence as they are other probable origins for the German Kauls. Of course Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is the most well known of Kauls.

Comment was made 12 years ago
Heer Dar says The Kauls and the Dars are same . The high upper class in Kasmiri valley region. They werre the first who gave girls the freedom to educate nd read. Their girls were always free.until the crap happened. Pllease ppl dont change your sirnames oridentities.

Comment was made 13 years ago
Puja Kaul says The correct word is Koul.

Comment was made 13 years ago
Ambar Jailkhani says Jawahar Lal Nehru was also a Kaul. His ancestor Raj Kaul was migrated from Kashmir. Reference to Raj Kaul can be found in Nehru's autobiography - Toward Freedom.

Comment was made 13 years ago
Chandra Mohan Kaul says kauls are supposed to be vanshaj of datt-tray rishi inventor of tantra shastra in hindu mythology hence were felt most powerful in the kashmiri society and it was felt that they will never speak lie or ditch any person who comes in their contact hence they are called KAUL derived from urdu whitch means VACHAN in hindi langgage

Comment was made 13 years ago
Ashwani Kaul says I was reading a very old book - Kashmiri Pandit by Anand Koul written in 1924 and it has a table at the end on Kashmiri surnames. Interestingly the surname Kaul is never spelled as Kaul through the whole book. It is always written as Koul. This is most likely a recent change.

Comment was made 15 years ago
Ashok says कौल, کاول - Wikipedia has some information on this surname - some is probably true and some may not be - The surname Kaul may have originated from the Sanskrit word Kaula 'Well Born' (from Sanskrit Kula 'Family'). The surname Kaul may have been derived from Mahakaul (The Great Kaul), which is an epithet of Shiva. This has led many scholars to believe that all Shaivas of Kashmir could have been Kauls. This view, however, is not supported by too many scholars. Kaul equates to Kula (clan in English) in Sanskrit. Clan is Klane in German.

Comment was made 15 years ago
Deepshikha Kaul Pandita says deepshikha kaul pandita

Comment was made 15 years ago
Rahul says Indian (Kashmir): Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskrit kaula ‘well-born’ (from Sanskrit kula ‘family’). According to Koul (1994), the surname Kaul is derived from Mahakaul meaning ‘the great Kaul’, which is an epithet of the god Shiva.

Comment was made 20 years ago
Ashwani Kaul says Two variations of this name exist - Koul and Kaul. I am not aware of any difference between the two, but would like to know if there is a difference.

Comment was made 23 years ago
Ashwani Kaul says Probably the most popular surname in Kashmir

Comment was made 23 years ago

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