Kashyap

konkanasth brahmans with a unbroken male lineage descending from Kashyap?

Kashyap, a turtle

He becomes a bit warmer, slowly, suddenly, in fact.. no friendliness for three days, a mask of a face and then one day, it suddenly slips. It is M of course- he manages to relax people into talking, has a kind way about him, people let slip their guard. on that fourth day of friendship, he consented to have tea with us ( no lunch, lunch was always at home, he said and looked like he might invite us, but he did not).. The citizenship of this city is a conferred right he said, from forefathers who had something to do with Phalke. and what did your forefather do? i would have asked crudely. M just waited, nodding his head once and Kashyap told us, his great grandfather had been a renowned pandit, an alchemist it turned out Phalke had once had an interest in alchemy.. I think if only M was around, he would have told us some more, some tall story that was hidden in his mind as history of his forefathers, but he was not forthcoming in my surly company.