“Awadh-Vashist”. The mother tongue of Awasthi Brahmins is Awadhi, an Indo-Aryan language , akin to Hindi . Awadhi is the language, in which, the famed epic Sri Ramacharit Manas was written by Tulasi Das . Like most of the north Indian Brahmins, Awasthi Brahmins do not allow consanguineous marriages, which are