Bheda

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Bheda (भेडा़) Bhera (भेडा़) Bhaira(भैडा़) is gotra of Jats found in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

History

The Jat historian Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria)^[1] writes that Jakhar is derived from Yaksha. This tribe Jakhar claim Jakha or Jakhu, known as Yaksha or Yakshu in Sanskrit, to be their most ancient eponymous progenitor. ^[2][3] Hukum Singh Panwar further writes that Yakshas were one of the tribes who fought the last battle of Dasrajna War (the battle of ten kings) under the leadership of Dasa Raja named Bheda against Bharatas tribes on the banks of Yamuna. The other tribes were Ajas, Sigrus, Alinas, Pakthas, Bhalana, Sivas, and Visanin. ^{[4] [5]} M.L. Bhargava writes that after the defeat on the Yamuna River they migrated to the Oxus (Geek name) valley and gave the name to valley as Jaksha or Jaaksha. He opines that Budakhsis and their city Badakshan are known after the combined name of Bheda, the leader of the Yakshas and that of the latter, Bheda is also a Jat clan. ^[6][7]

The Mahabharata Book 9: section 45 - Shalya Parva Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr. 1883-1896 mentions the names of the large bands of the mothers, those slayers of foes, that became the companions of Kumara (Kartikeya). The names of those illustrious mothers includes that of Bhedi also. The Mahabharata Book 9: section 45 - Shalya Parva Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr. 1883-1896 shloka 13 gives details as under:

धनथा सुप्रसाथा च भवथा च जलेश्वरी

एडी भेडी सुमेडी च वेताल जननी तदा

कण्डूतिः कालिका चैव थेव मित्रा च भारत ।। 13 ।।

Bhedaghat is a place of tourist importance near Jabalpur city in Madhya Pradesh on the banks of River Narmada. The banks of river Narmada is described as the birth place of Yaksha king Kuvera (Vaisravana), where his father Visravas, who was a sage, lived (MBh 3,89). King Vaisravana or Kubera was the ruler of Lanka Kingdom which was guarded by hosts of Rakshasas. It is a matter of deep research to find the relation between Bheda clan of jats and the Bedaghat on the banks of Jabalpur.

Bheda in Rigveda

Bhim Singh Dahiya has mentionedabout Rigvedic tribe - Bheda, Aryan tribe mentioned in Rigveda, (RV Vll/18/18-19): This is the tribe mentioned in the famous battle of 10 kings fought on the river Yamuna. He was killed because he refused to give cows to Indra ^[8]. This tribe is to be identified with Bheda clan of the Jats still living on the river Yamuna in district Karnal. The Hymns 18-19 from Mandala 7 is quoted as under:

The Rig Veda/Mandala 7/Hymn 18

To thee have all thine enemies submitted: e'en the fierce Bheda hast thou made thy subject.

Cast down thy sharpened thunderbolt, O Indra, on him who harms the men who sing thy praises.

The Rig Veda/Mandala 7/Hymn 19

Yamuna and the Trtsus aided Indra. There he stripped Bheda bare of all his treasures.

The Ajas and the Sigrus and the Yaksus brought in to him as tribute heads of horses.

Bheda Devi

Dr. Raghu Nath Singh of Benaras, who has translated Jonraja's RajTarangini into English, maintains, there were originally about three hundred Hindu tirthas in Kashmir, which were considered important and had each a special significance of its own for the devotees. Kalhana makes a specific mention of tirthas like Kapteshwara, Jwala Mukhi, Chakreshwara, Martanda, Sarda and some others. M. Arel Stein, who visited the religious shrines mentioned in Kalhana's Raj Tarangini, says that the tirtha of 'Gangod Bheda' was not visited by the Brahamanas of the valley of Kashmir because by that time it had gone into oblivion, having fallen into a state of neglect over a period of time. He observes: High up in the valley of the Birnai Stream which debounches at Darbagam from the south west, is the site of an ancient tirtha, which though not completely forgotten, must have ranked once among the most popular in Kashmir. In Kalhana's introduction there is named along with 'Trisandheya' Suyambhoo. Sarda and other famous sites, the Hill of Bheda (Bheda Giti) sanctified by the 'Gangod-bheda' spring. There the Goddess Saraswati was believed to have shown herself as a swan in a lake situated on the summit of the hill. (See Rajtarangini by Kalhana, p. 472) It is worth mentioning here that the road to Bheda Devi runs through the Pargana named Shakoora in the old records. The stream called Vaitarini-nad (now called Birnai) flows through Shakoora. The Bheda Devi tirtha is situated in an open vale surrounded by large mountains having devdar and fur trees on their tops, From a place nearby the road leads to Rajouri and Poonch. The village Kelar, whence we took the road leading to Bheda Devi tirtha, is the Kalyanpura grama which was founded by Kalyani Devi, a queen of Tayapeeda. Drabhagom is mentioned by the historian Sheevara as Drabhgrama. It is a big village that is still famous. ^[9]

Distribution in Uttar Pradesh

Villages in Ghaziabad district

Only 1 Bheda family in Bisokhar vilage, Modinagar in Ghaziabad District "Ch. Rajbir Singh, S/O Ch Tejpal Singh"

Villages in Baghpat district

Katha काठा (katta, katka nagari), Bandpur. katha is on delhi-sahranpur state highway and 6 k.m. from baghpat towords dehi and 22 k.m. from delhi.

Distribution Rajasthan

Villages in Jhunjhunu district

Pratappura, Bhaira ki Dhani,

Villages in Sikar district

Sikar

References

1. ↑ Hukum Singh Panwar(Pauria), The Jats - Their Origin, Antiquity & Migrations, 1993 Publisher - Manthan Publications, Rohtak, Haryana, ISBN 81-85235-22-8, p. 150-151
2. ↑ Yoginder Pal Shastri, op. cit., p. 468
3. ↑ Amichand Sharma, Jat Varna mimansa, v.s. 1967
4. ↑ Hukum Singh Panwar(Pauria), The Jats - Their Origin, Antiquity & Migrations, 1993 Publisher - Manthan Publications, Rohtak, Haryana, ISBN 81-85235-22-8, p. 150-151
5. ↑ Buddha Prakash, op. cit., p. 77
6. ↑ M.L. Bhargava, Geography of the Rigvedic India, Lucknow, 1964, p. 129
7. ↑ Hukum Singh Panwar(Pauria), The Jats - Their Origin, Antiquity & Migrations, 1993 Publisher - Manthan Publications, Rohtak, Haryana, ISBN 81-85235-22-8, p. 150-151
8. ↑ AV Xll/4/49-50
9. ↑ The Forgotten Tirtha of Bheda Devi by Arjan Dev Majboor

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