Banias is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 99 anagrams from letters in Banias (aabins).
First recorded in 1590-1600
The name bania is derived from the Sanskrit vanij, a merchant.
They nearly all belong to the bania caste, and are engaged in moneylending and trade like other banias.
They say that once a bania was walking along the road with a cocoanut in his hand when Vishnu met him and asked him what it was.
There is no Vaishya caste at present, but the bania caste are considered, perhaps incorrectly, to be descended from the Vaishyas.
Another more ambitious legend derives their origin from the bania caste.
Once upon a time there was a town called Atpat.1 In it there lived a bania who had no son.
In Saugor, a bania is put out of caste if he keeps buffaloes.
The bania asked what he should do with it, and Vishnu told him to make a blanket out of it for the god to sit on.
A subcaste of bania, whose name is derived from the same place.
bania, Dosar, Dūsra.1—This subcaste numbers about 600 persons.
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