Vatsyayan Gotra

Vatsyayan Gotra is classified under the Saraswat Brahmin sect. They are GeneRally concentrated in North India.

Origin

Origin of Vatsyayan Gotra is a very much debatable topic. Majority of the Brahmin clans in North India have descended from Kashmir. Vatsyayan Gotra claims its lineage from Maha Rishi Vatsyayan of the Kamasutra fame. Families of Vatsyayan Gotra are said to have existed in town of Pattan in Kashmir till the 11th century AD. Following annexations by the hands of Mughal Kings, they were forced to leave their places and descended down to the foothills of Shivalliks near the towns of Kangra and Una of the Undivided Punjab.

Theories also postulate that Acharya Chanakya belonged to the Vatsyayan. clan Seeing this experts have fixed the time of Vatsyayan as when Patna was famous as Patliputra.
Vatsyayans of North east India (Western UP, Bengal, Bihar) consider themselves as the descendants of Chanakya.

Vatsyayan was the Pratisamskrita of the earlier works of Barabhra Muni. Vatsya then redacted the work of Kamasutra. This means that Maharishi Vatsyayan was before Vatsya.
Vatsya was also the commentator of Kashyapa samhita which means that time of Vatsyayan was much before Kautilya thus removing the doubts that Chanakya was Vatsyayan himself.

The name of Vatsyayan also appears in the Vedas as the commentator of Gautam sutra of Nyaya darshan and its time is said to be around 400 BCE.