Mythologies of the Kayastha Tribe
Kayastha or Kayasth denotes a cluster of disparate Indian communities broadly categorised by the regions of the Indian subcontinent in which they were traditionally located — the Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas of North India , the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhus of Maharashtra , the Bengali Kayasthas of Bengal and Karanas of Odisha . All of them were traditionally considered "writing castes ", who had historically served the ruling powers as administrators, ministers and record-keepers. The earliest known reference to the term Kayastha dates back to the Kushan Empire , when it evolved into a common name for a writer or scribe . In the Sanskrit literature and inscriptions , it was used to denote the holders of a particular category of offices in the government service. In this context, the te...