 Deshastha Brahmin surnames

Deshastha Brahmin surnames are derived by adding the suffix "kar" to the village from which the family originally hailed.For example, Bidkar came from town of Bid, Nagpurkar comes from the city Nagpur, Dharwadkar from the town of Dharwad in Karnataka, and the Marathi poet V. V. Shirwadkar, colloquially known as "Kusumagraj", came from the town of Shirwad.