Hari

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Hari (हरी) Hariwar (हरीवार) Hariwal (हरीवाल) is gotra of Jats found in Distt Kurukshetra in Haryana. They are descendants of Raja Hiranya Varma (हिरण्यवर्मा). ^[1] They have been mentioned in Mahabharata Shalya Parva.

Mahabharata Shalya Parva mentions names of combatants armed with diverse weapons and clad in diverse kinds of robes and ornaments, All of them came to the ceremony for investing Kartikeya with the status of generalissimo. Shalya Parva in Sanskrit mentions in shloka 56 Hari along with many Jat clans as under:

अजॊदरॊ गजशिराः सकन्धाक्षः शतलॊचनः

जवाला जिह्वः करालश च सितकेशॊ जटी हरिः ।। 56 ।।

The Mahabharata, Aswamedha Parva in Sanskrit, Book 14:Section VIII, shloka 15 mentions Hari along woth Moond and Bhaskar Jat clans as under:

हरि केशाय मुण्डाय कृशायॊत्तारणाय च

भास्कराय सुतीर्दाय थेवथेवाय रंहसे

Distribution

Hari Jat population is 2,130 in Patiala district.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998 p. 285
2. ↑ History and study of the Jats. By Professor B.S Dhillon. ISBN-10: 1895603021 or ISBN-13: 978-1895603026. p.126

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