Gargas

Gargas or Garga is one of big gotra in Hindu gotra system,Gargas were warrior Brahmins and some text indicates they were the descendants of Guru Dronacharya the legendary character from Mahabharata. The name Gargas and Garg sound familiar but are not the same. Garg are purely vaishya and have no connection to Rishi Gargas.All the descendants of Bharadwaj Gotra display warrior skills because sage Bharadwaj married a Kshatriya woman called Suseela.According to Anuloma marriage, the offsprings who are born to a Brahmin father and a kshatriya woman take the characteristics of Kshatriya though technically being a Brahmin.Hence the Brahmin descandants of Bharadwaj Gotra are referred to as Brahma-Kshatriyas(Warrior Brahmins). Gargas is the name of several communes in France: