Pachkalshi / Panchkalshi are ethnic community of Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

 and Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

. They are also known by name of Somvanshi Kshatriya Pathare.

They are one of the original tribes, who migrated to Bombay in 13th century AD with Yaduvanshi king, Raja Bhimdev

Raja Bhimdev

Bhimdev II or Raja Bhimdev also known as Raja Bimba was a 11th century king who had his capital in Mahikawati, the present-day Mahim, in Mumbai, India....

 According to tradition, the Panchkalshis derive their name from the fact that their former headman used to sit on a canopied throne surmounted by five kalasha

Kalasha

Kalasha, also spelled as Kalash and kalasa , is a metal pot with a large base and small mouth, large enough to hold a coconut. Sometimes "Kalasha" also refers to such a pot filled with water and topped with a coronet of mango leaves and a coconut...

s. They are also priests - Prabhu

Prabhu

Prabhu means master or the supreme lord in Sanskrit and many of the Indian languages; it is a name sometimes applied to God.The term is also used by male devotees of the hindu deity Lord Krishna/Vishnu as a title and form of address. If a man sees another male devotee whom he does not know, he will...

s and related to communities like Pathare Prabhu

Pathare prabhu

Pathare Prabhu is one of the Hindu communities in the city of Mumbai . These people are among earliest settlers in the city. They are known to have one of the oldest academic traditions amongst Hindus on par with Brahmins. They were amongst the first of the Hindus to adopt to British educational...

s. Pachkalshis who came with Raja Bhimdev were gardener (Mali

Mali caste

The Mali are an occupational caste found among the Hindus who traditionally worked as gardners. They also call themselves Phul Mali, who derived their names from their occupation of growing flowers. The Mali are found throughout North India, East India as well as the Terai region of Nepal and...

), carpenter and herdsman also.

Pachkalshi as well Chaukalshi

Chaukalshi

Chaukalshi is an ethnic community of Maharashtra and Goa.They are related to Panchkalshi community and are involved in occupation of Mali, carpenter, herdsman and also Prabhus. In social hierarchy they are considered lower than Panchkalshi.They are one of the original tribes, who migrated to Bombay...

 tribe are found living along the coastal belt of Mumbai & Goa. Panchkalshi consider themselves one notch above Chaukalshis

Panchkalshis have founded at least three temples in Mumbai like Malkeshwar temple in Parel

Parel

Lower Parel or Parel is central part of Mumbai. It is also lends its name to two railway stations on the Mumbai suburban railway. Most of the mills in Mumbai used to be in this area till some years ago...

 and also Mahadev

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

 temple named after famous Parli Vaijnath temple is said to have been built by them. Another temple built by them was of their kuldevi Wagheswari Devi.