Shri Subrahmanya Sabha is a cultural organization

Culture

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 formed by the Sthanika Brahmin

Sthanika Brahmins

Sthānika Brāhmins are Smartha Brahmins, and come under the classification of Tuluva Brahmins; The belong to Pancha-Drāvida Brahmin Community. The Kuladevatha of Sthānika Brahmin's is Subramanya...

 community in 1908. Its headquarters are located in Mangalore

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The organization was formed to encourage self-development amongst youth as well as adult members of the Brahmin

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 society. Its aims include the promotion of education

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 (in both Sanskrit

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 and English

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) and employment

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, and socio-cultural development. To this end it offers such services as medical assistance

Medicine

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 to the needy, scholarship

Scholarship

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s and loans for university

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 students, career

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 guidance, and annual visits to Shringeri

Shringeri

Sringeri , also written as Sringeri, Śŗngeri and Śŗngagiri is a hill town and taluk headquarters located in Chikmagalur district in the Indian state of Karnataka, is the site of the first maţha established by Adi Shankaracharya, Hindu theologian and exponent of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy, in...

 for the Guruvandana mass prayer

Prayer

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On May 10, 2008, the organization began its centenary celebration with religious and cultural programmes.

External links

• Website of Shri Subramanya Sabha
• All set for Sri Subramanya Sabha centenary fete in The Hindu
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