Agrawal
Agrawal (
It is said[
Agrawals are Suryavamsha and belongs to Raghuvamsha house.[citation needed] Members of the Agrawal community are known for their business acumen and have for many years been influential and prosperous in India. Even in modern-day tech and ecommerce companies, they continue to dominate. It was reported in 2013, that for every 100 in funding for e-commerce companies in India, 40 went to firms founded by Agrawals.[9]
History
Agrawals are one of the
In inscriptions and texts, the original home of the Agrawal community is stated as
- In Pradumna Charita of
- In his Padma Purana[14] of VS 1711 (AD 1654), Muni Sabhachandra writes "अग्रोहे निकट प्रभु ठाढे जोग, करैं वन्दना सब ही लोग|| अग्रवाल श्रावक प्रतिबोध, त्रेपन क्रिया बताई सोध||", (When Lohacharya was near Agroha, he taught the 53 actions to the Agrawal shravakas).
- In a Sanskrit inscription, the Agrawals are referred to as Agrotaka ("from Agroha"). A 1272 AD inscription states: "सं १३२९ चैत्र वुदी दशम्यां बुधवासरे अद्येह योगिनिपुरे समस्त राजावलि-समलन्कृत ग्यासदीन राज्ये अत्रस्थित अग्रोतक परम श्रावक जिनचरणकमल".[15]
Some of the Agarwals adapted Jainism under the influence of Lohacharya.[16]
Migration to Delhi
The Agrawal merchant Nattal Sahu, and the Agrawal poet Vibudh Shridhar lived during the reign of Tomara King Anangapal of Yoginipur (now Mehrauli, near Delhi).[17] Vibudh Shridhar wrote Pasanahacariu in 1132 AD, which includes a historical account of Yoginipur (early Delhi near Mehrauli) then.
In 1354,
Migration to Rajput kingdoms
During the era of Islamic administrative rule in India, some Agrawal, as with the Saraogi, migrated to the Bikaner State.[citation needed] The Malkana include Muslim Agrawals, who converted from Hinduism to Islam during this time and were given land tracts along the Yamuna by Afghan rulers.[2]
In the early 15th century, Agrawals flourished under the
Golden Age of the Jain Digambar Temple in Gwalior under the Tomara rulers inspired by the
Raighu as their mouthpiece and spokesman, a centenarian author of as many as thirty books, big and small of which two dozen are reported to be extant today. Verify the advent of the Hisar-Firuza-based Jain Agrawals who functioned as the ministers and treasurers of the ruling family had turned the Rajput State of Gwalior into a Digambara Jain Centre par excellence representing the culture of the Agrawal multi-millionner shravakas as sponsored by them.[19]
Migration to Eastern India
Later, during the Mughal rule, and during the
Gotras
Agrawals belong to various gotras, traditionally said to be seventeen and a half in number. According to Bharatendu Harishchandra's Agarwalon ki Utpatti (1871), Agrasen - the legendary progenitor of the community - performed 17 sacrifices and left the eighteenth incomplete, resulting in this number. Bharatendu also mentions that Agrasen had 17 queens and a junior queen, but does not mention any connection between the number of gotras and the number of queens, or describe how the sacrifices led to the formation of the gotras.[22] Another popular legend claims that a boy and girl from the Goyan gotra married each other by mistake, which led to the formation of a new "half" gotra. Another popular belief that since Maharaj Agrasen has 17 son and one daughter so where his daughter was married the gotra of daughter in laws were adopted as half gotra in Agrawals, thus 17.5 gotra. [23]
Historically, there has been no unanimity regarding number and names of these seventeen and a half gotras, and there are regional differences between the list of gotras. The Akhil Bhartiya Agrawal Sammelan, a major organization of Agrawals, has created a standardized list of gotras, which was adopted as an official list by a vote at the organization's 1983 convention.[24] Because the classification of any particular gotra as "half" is considered insulting, the Sammelan provides a list of following 18 gotras:[25]
Gotra | Original Gotra | Lord | Saint (Guru) | Veda | Branch | Sutra |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airan/Aeron | Aurva | Indramal | Atri/Aaurva | Yajurveda | Madhyadini/Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Bansal | Vatsya | Virbhan | Vishist/Vatsa | Samaveda | Kouthmi/Kauttham | Gobhil |
Bindal or Vindal | Vishist | Vrinddev | Yavasya or Vashista | Yajurveda | Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Bhandal | Dhoumya | Vasudev | Bhardwaj | Yajurveda | Madhyadini or Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Dharan or Deran | Dhanyas | Dhavandev | Bhekaar or Ghaumya | Yajurveda | Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Garg or Gargeya | Gargasya | Pushpadev | Gargacharya or Garg | Yajurveda | Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Goyal, Goel or Goenka | Gomil | Gendumal | Gautam or Gobhil | Yajurveda | Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Goyan, Gangal | Gautan | Godhar | Purohit or Gautam | Yajurveda | Madhyadini or Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Jindal | Gemino | Jaitrasangh | Bruhaspati or Jaimini | Yajurveda | Madhyadini or Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Kansal | Kaushik | Manipal | Kaushik | Yajurveda | Madhyadini or Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Kuchhal, Kuchchal | Kashyap | Karanchand | Kush or Kashyap | Samaveda | Kosami or Kauttham | Komaal |
Madhukul/Mudgal | Mudgal | Madhavsen | Aashvalayan/Mudgal | Rigveda/Yajurveda | Saalaya/Sakalya | Aslayin |
Mangal | Maandav | Amritsen | Mudragal/Mandavya | Rigveda/Yajurveda | Sakalya | Asusai |
Mittal | Maitreya | Mantrapati | Vishwamitra/Maitreya | Yajurveda | Madhyadini/Madhuri | Kaatyayni |
Nangal/Nagal | Naagend | Narsev | Kaudalya/Nagendra | Samaveda | Kouthmi/Kauttham | Aslayin |
Singhal/Singla | Shandalya | Sindhupati | Shringi/Shandilya | Samaveda | Koyumi/Kauttham | Gobhil |
Tayal | Taitireya | Tarachand | Saakal/Taitireya | Yajurveda/Kri | Madhyadini/Aausthambh | Kaatyayni |
Tingal/Tunghal | Taandav | Tambolkarna | Shandilya/Tandya | Yajurveda | Madhyadini/Madhuri | Kaatyayn |
The existence of all the gotras mentioned in the list is controversial, and the list does not include several existing clans such as Kotrivala, Pasari, Mudgal, Tibreval, and Singhla.[27][need quotation to verify]
Notable Agrawals
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4008-7780-5.
Some subsects of the Oswals and Agarwals were converted to Jainism in the 16th century.
- ^ a b c Sikand, Yoginder; Katju, Manjari (20 August 1994). "Mass Conversions to Hinduism among Indian Muslims". Economic and Political Weekly. 29 (34): 2214–2219.
- ^ Patel, Aakar (6 February 2015). "A history of the Agarwals". mint. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "A history of the Agarwal's". 6 February 2015.
- ^ Gupta, Babu Lal (1987). Trade and Commerce in Rajasthan During the 18th Century. Jaipur Publishing House. p. 88.
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- ^ Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhry (4 June 2014). "Nagar Mahal – from Agarwals to Sukheras". Dawn. Pakistan.
- ISBN 978-1-4384-6944-7.
Agarwal recounts how the news of his own conversion was greeted by his grandmother in Punjab...
- ^ Julka, Harsimran; Radhika P. Nair (12 February 2013). "Why young Aggarwals dominate India's e-commerce start-ups". The Economic Times. Delhi.
- ^ Down to Earth: Science and Environment Fortnightly, Volume 16, Issues 16-24. Society for Environmental Communications. 2008. p. 71.
Resembling Tughlak period architectures, it was probably constructed by the Agrawal community (tracing back to Maharaja Agrasen).
- ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.
The Banias of northern India are really a cluster of several communities, of which the Agarwal Banias, Oswal Banias, and Porwal Banias are mentioned separately in connection with certain surnames.
- ^ Harishchandra, Bharatendu (23 October 2020). Agarwalon ki utpatti (in Hindi). खेमराज श्रीकृष्णदास अध्यक्ष : श्रीवेंकटेश्वर प्रेस, ९१/१०९, खेमराज श्रीकृष्णदास मार्ग, ७ वी खेतवाडी बैंक रोड कार्नर, मुंबई - ४०० ००४. दूरभाष/फैक्स-०२२-२३८५७४५६. खेमराज श्रीकृष्णदास ६६, हडपसर इण्डस्ट्रियल इस्टेट, पुणे - ४११०१३. दूरभाष-०२०-२६८७१०२५, फेक्स -०२०-२६८७४१०७. गंगाविष्णु श्रीकृष्णदास, लक्ष्मी वेंकटेश्वर प्रेस व बुक डिपो श्रीलक्ष्मीवेंकटेश्वर प्रेस बिल्डींग, जूना छापाखाना गली, अहिल्याबाई चौक, कल्याण, बि. ठाणे, महाराष्ट्र - ४२१ ३०१ दूरभाष/फेक्स-०२५१-२२०९०६१. खेमराज श्रीकृष्णदास चौक, वाराणसी (उ.प्र.) २२१ ००१. दूरभाष - ०५४२-२४२००७८.: bharatenduHarichandra.
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- ^ Muni Sabhachandra aur Unaka Padmapurana, Kasturchanda Kasliwal, 1984
- ^ Parmananda Jain Shastri. Agrawalon ka Jain sanskriti mein yogadan. Anekanta Oct. 1966, p. 277-281
- ISBN 978-81-85579-09-2.
The bulk of the Agrawals belong to Vaishnava sect of Hinduism. ... Agrawals, it is believed, were converted to Jainism by Sri Loha Charyaji between 27 and 77 years of the Vikram era.
- ^ An Early Attestation of the Toponym Ḍhillī, by Richard J. Cohen, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1989, p. 513-519
- ^ The story of Hisar
- ^ a b Kashtha Sangha Bhattarakas of Gwalior and Agrawal Shravakas, Dr. K. C. Jain, 1963, p. 72
- ^ "गोपाचल के जिन मन्दिर एवं प्रतिमाएँ" (in Hindi). Webdunia.com. Archived from the original on 24 December 2004. Retrieved 2 June 2007.
- ISBN 978-0-23112-216-0.
- ^ Lawrence A. Babb 2004, pp. 201–202.
- ^ M. S. Gore 1990, p. 69.
- ^ Lawrence A. Babb 2004, pp. 193–194.
- ^ Lawrence A. Babb 2004, p. 192.
- ^ "Agarwal Gotra and Details - Aggarwal Samaj".
- ^ Lawrence A. Babb 2004, p. 193.
Bibliography
- Lawrence A. Babb (2004). Alchemies of Violence: Myths of Identity and the Life of Trade in Western India. SAGE. ISBN 978-0-7619-3223-9.
- ISBN 978-0-86132-262-6.
External links
- Media related to Agrawal at Wikimedia Commons