Panchal or Panchal-Brahmin (Sanskrit: рдкрд╛рдВрдЪрд╛рд▓, romanized: P─Бnch─Бl) is a Master Craftsman caste of India. Panchal is a collective term for class of engineers, architects, priests, sculptors and temple builders. They are Brahmins and belong to Poursheya Brahmins sect.They belong to the Vishwakarma sect and are also known as Panchal Brahmin.
Panchal are group of people, who took Engineering and Technology works as an occupation. This community uses the surnames like: Panchal, Vishwakarma, Singh, Dhiman, Sharma, Vashista, etc. The Panchal-Brahmin has many gotra and they maintain clan exogamy as a strict rule for marriage. The community is moving very highly in society in both business and education.
They worship Lord Vishwakarma as their clan deity and observe the Vishwakarma Day (a day after Diwali), Vishwakarma Jayanti (17 September) as a day which holds very high religious significance to their community and their deity.