Bheda

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Bheda (भेडा़) Bhaira(भैडा़) is gotra of Jats found in Distt Jhunjhunu, Nagaur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan.

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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]

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

Bheda Aryan tribe is 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.

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

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