Sursura

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Sursara (सुरसुरा) is the place in Kishangarh tehsil in Ajmer district in Rajasthan, situated 8 km south of Rupangarh town on Parbatsar-Ajmer road.

1 Demography
2 History
3 Tejaji temple
4 See also
5 Reference

Demography

The population of village as of 2001 census is 5148 out of them 749 are SC and 59 are ST people.^[1] Sursura has about 1100 families. Jat gotras in Sursara are Bana, Ghaswa, Ghasal, Jakhar, Jhajhra, Punia, Chandelia.

Other castes are Meghwal, Gurjar, Mali, Raigar, Khatik, Rajput, Baniya, Dholi, Doom.

History

Sursura is the place where the Jat folk-deity Tejaji became martyr fighting with the enemies. The jot (जोत) of Tejaji is carried from this place to any place in India where a temple of Tejaji is constructed. It becomes a heaven of visitors and devotees during the month of Bhadwa. Devotees come from Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to pay tributes. Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh people have strong faith in Tejaji. Here Tejaji temples can be found in large number of villages.

Tejaji temple

There is a temple of Tejaji facing east at the site where Tejaji martyred. There are three statues in it. Tejaji is shown riding the mare 'Līlan (लीलण) with a black cobra sucking blood. In the south direction of statues is the bambi where he was bite by cobra. Here is a statue of kala Bhainru ,who was supposed to be his guard. Outside the parikrama area is a deoli of Pemal, wife of Tejaji, where she became sati with Tejaji. There is a dharamsala in front of temple on which life of Tejaji has been depicted.

Entry of ladies is prohibited in Tejaji temple as he was akhand brahmchari. A mali caste people does the pooja.