Kudaldeshkar Gaud Brahmin

Kudaldeshkar Gaud Brahmin is a Brahmin sub-caste from the western coast of India, residing in the Konkan division of Maharashtra and Goa.

[full citation needed][need quotation to verify] Kudaldeshkar Gaud Brahmins follow Shankaracharya's Advaita school of philosophy, and have their own three centuries old Matha in Dabholi village in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Today Malwani is more significantly identified as the principal language of Kudaldeshkars and also of the natives of the Sindhudurg district.

There is no unique script or text characters for Malwani and it is generally written in Devanagari.

They also speak Marathi in Maharashtra, and Konkani in Goa and Karnataka.

Divisions of Maharashtra. The red region is an approximate indication of Konkan, the coastal region of Maharashtra and the ancestral home of Kudaldeshkars