Complex sentence: Vajpayee or Bajpai is a surname equivalent to Pandey, Awasthi, Mishra and Shukla especially prominent among North Indian Brahmins.These people were the only entitled performers of revered and powerful vajpaya yagya.
Split into simpler sentences: Vajpayee or Bajpai is a surname equivalent to Pandey, Awasthi, Mishra and Shukla especially prominent among North Indian Brahmins. They were the only entitled performers of revered and powerful vajpaya yagya.