Kumud
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Kumud (कुमुद) is a gotra of Jats. This gotra started after Naga named Kumuda. [1] Kumud was one of combatants armed with diverse weapons and clad in diverse kinds of robes and ornaments, that Skanda procured at the time of ceremony of investiture. (See - Shalya Parva in Mahabharata)
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 52 Kumud along with Sankhunias as under:
- शङ्कुकर्णॊ निकुम्भश च पद्मः कुमुद एव च
- अनन्तॊ द्वादश भुजस तदा कृष्णॊपकृष्णकौ ।। 52।।
References
- ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998, p. 234
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