Gautam (Nepali name)
Gautam is a surname of Nepalese origin modified from the anterior surname Gotāmé and the original homeland of the surname identified as Gotamkot in western Nepal. Origin. Due to religious prosecutions initiated by the Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent, it is belived that Kāshidās - a learned scholar and versed in the four Vedas, arrived in Sinja of the Khasa Kingdom from medieval India around 12th century CE "to protect Dharma" and was received with royal respect and honor by the King of Sinja. Descendants of Kāshidās were given a land grant in Gotamkot of present-day  western Nepal from where the surname originates. Kāshidās was a descendant of Ritubhadra, a learned Vedic scholar in the ancient Indian city of Kanyakubja (Kannauj). An inscription in the Shiva temple in Dang Valley mentions in Sanskrit that Kāshidās arrived to Sinja from Kanyakubja (Kannauj) with his disciples "to protect Dharma" and was given royal respect and land grant by the Sinja King.