Gopi

What defines a creatrix is less the sex of the body that a person was born into, but rather that they live in contact with that in our culture which has been designated the Feminine – the fluid and flowing – and devote themselves to bringing these qualities to birth through their bodies.

Īśvara is often concerned more with a philosophical category in these contexts than with specific divine personal supreme beings

Solanki is our branch or clan. This is a kind of subcaste or lineage: the group of people we think of as our close relatives, a cluster of Kshatriyas who live in certain villages—five villages, to be precise—and with whom we share rituals and sacraments. It is this group for whom Bimal Barot and his family serve as record-keepers.