The Hoysala Karnatakas are well known sub-set of Smarta brahmins, which has produced many eminent scholars, musicians, philosophers, generals and religious pontiffs, over tyhe centuries. Of the two parts of the name of this sub-sect viz., HOYSALA & KARNATAKA, the second part i.e., Karnataka is easily explained, as the mother tounge of this community is and has been Kannada and as they have been the inhabitants of the karnatak region.

But WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRST PART OF THE NAME viz., HOYSALA???