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Meaning of विशिष्ठ गार्गेय

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[Brihat Samhita talks about  Arundhatī and Vasiṣṭha  : The Ṛṣis take a period of 100 years to go over each of the 27 asterisms. They rise in the north-east and are accompanied by the chaste Arundhatī (Alcor)—the consort of Vasiṣṭha (Mizar). - see  this ] Since most don't know sanskrrta, it leaves many people in unawareness of their lineage. I took a lot of time and sanskrrta learning to figure out meaning of my gotra grammatically : विशिष्ठ गार्गेय We(all in our current paternal lineage) were/are generally told by the family brahmana that - विशिष्ठ means the male part of gotra and गार्गेय is the female part of gotra. But when I checked gotra in other parts of country it is generally paternal only.  To make it even more confusing "some" think that - गार्गेय - is a misspelling and instead should be - गार्ग्य​ - which is wrong because it is a word for paternal lineage , as   गार्ग्य - means son of  गर्ग So what d...