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According to Christian Novetzke, in medieval India, Kayastha in certain parts were considered either as Brahmins or equal to Brahmins. Several religious councils and institutions have subsequently stated the varna status of Chitraguptvanshi Kayasthas to be Brahmin. Similarly, CKPs were classified as Kshatriya and given rights over Vedas by religious councils, Ramshatri Prabhune and the Shankaracharya himself. According to anthropologist Donald Kutz and Andre Béteille, they are considered socially close to a Marathi Brahmin community, and like them they studied the Vedas, wore the sacred thread and had a death pollution of 10 days(as opposed to 12 days for Kshatriyas). According to Novetzke, they are an intermediate caste between Brahmin and Kshatriya given that they were in the "they might have been considered as equal to Brahmin or simply within the Brahminic ecumene in the 13th century although they understand themselves to have arisen from the Kshatriya varna".