Lineages of Vasiṣṭha

The Pravara of Vasiṣṭha Gotra was the only Vasistha. They did not marry each other. Vyāghrapāda, Oupagava, Vaiklava, Śādvalāyana, Kapiṣṭhala, Oupaloma, Alabdha, Śatha, Katha, Gaupāyana, Bodhapa, Dākavya, Vāhyaka, Bāliśay, Pāliśaya, Vāggranthi, Āpasthūṇa, Śītavṛtta, Brāhmapureyaka, Lobhāyana, Svstikara, Śāṇḍili, Goudini, Vādohali, Sumanā, Upavṛddhi, Couli, Bouli, Brahmabala, Pouli, Śravas, Pauṇḍava and Yajñavalkya these sages were in same gotra Pravara . Vasiṣṭha was their Pravara and they did not inter marriage.

Śailālaay, Mahākarṇa, Koukhya, Krodhina, Kapinjala, Bālakhilya, Bhāgavittāyana, Kaulāyana, Kālaśikha, Korakṛṣṇa, Surāyana, Sakāharya, Śākadhī, Kāṇva, Upalapa, Śākāyana, Uhāka, Māṣaśarāvaya, Dākāyana, Bālavaya, Vākaya, Gorat, Lambāyana, Śyāmavaya, Krododarāyaṇa, Pralambāyan, Oupamanyu, Sānkhyāyana, Vedaśeraka, Pālankāyana, Udgāha, Balekṣu, Māteya, Brahmamalī and Pannagāri of all these sages the three sages were called Pravara named Bhagīvasu, Vasiṣṭha and Indrapramādi. Among them, Intermarriage was prohibited.

Oupasthala, Asvasthalaya, Bāla, Hāla, Hala, Madhyandina, Mākṣataya, Paippalādi, Vicukṣaṣa, Traiśṛngāyaṇa, Saibalka, and Kuṇḍina all these sages were in the Vasiṣṭha, Mitravaruṇa and Kuṇḍina pravara. Dānakāya, Mahāvirya, Nāgeya, Parama, Ālamba, Vāyana and Cakroda–among these sages were prohibited to marry each other. Śivakarṇa, Vaya and Pādapa wer belong to the pravara of Jātukarṇa, Vasiṣṭha and Atri. They also did not marry each other.^[1]