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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

MAHAWAR VAISHYA - माहौर वैश्य

Mahawar Vaishya is a category of Marwari Bania caste of the Hindu religion. Mostly based in Alwar and Jaipur district of Rajasthan, Mathura District of Uttar Pradesh, Mandi Govind Garh in Punjab, Rewari of Haryana and also across India and abroad. They believe in Hinduism,Vaishnav and Sanatan Dharma and called Vaishnav Bania. They are devotees of Krishna and other Hindu gods. They are strict vegetarian in food habit and avoid consuming alcohol. They generally use Gupta as their surname. Other surnames include Data, Gigras & other clan names and sometimes Mahawar also.

There is another community which also used surname as Mahawar and known as Mahawar Koli. The Mahawar Koli are mainly found in Rajasthan in cities Jaipur, Kota, Swaimadhopur, Dausa, Alwar, Kaurali, Bharatpur.

Mahawar Vaishaya is the best class of Baniya / vaishya (Business class) as evident from name MAHA + WAR which indicated Great + Businessman.

Some of the famous Mahawars in the History includes Great donor Mr. BhamaShah without whose help Proud of Rajasthan, great emperor Maharana Pratap could not win the war against Mughal king Akabar.

Mahawars has history as old as Lord Krishna, as there are many historic evidence exists for the existenance of mahawars during Lord Krishna's time both while in Mathura UP and in Dwarika Gujarat..

26 comments:

  1. Mahawar vaishya samaj k baare m aur jankari deejiye.

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  2. प्रवीण जी अपने की कुल देवी कौन है अगर आप को जानकरजा हो तो दे। My id is aman_gpt@yahoo.com.

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  3. why some kori people use mahor as surname?

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  4. Why is some Gupta under obc category ?

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    1. They are from UP state.. not comes in Mahawar vaish samaj

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  5. Is Atra gotra . . . A baniya and genei category ??

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  6. i am atri gotra,mahor vaisya from mathura does that makes me mahawar

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    1. Yes, you are mahawar. Even I too am Atri gotra Mahaur Vaishy. my roots are from Kasganj and Chandausi.

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  7. Mahour ,mahawar or mahor ye teeno ek hi h

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  8. What caste does Mahor baniya belong to.

    OBC or general?

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    1. Mahor Baniya(Vaishy) comes under General while Mahor Koli comes under OBC.

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  9. mahaore vaishya and aggarwal samaj main kya fark hai.

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  11. but it is said that maharaja agrasena was oswal jain and some mahawar baniye use mahajan as caste also.

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  12. Hi, My name is Shubham Gupta.
    Village : Bidhipur , Hathras, UP.
    KulDevi : Belon Sarva Mangala Devi Temple
    We have our vanshavali in Belon. The information given by the pandit who maintain our vanshavali is that our gotra is माहौर . I am confused can माहौर be directly used as a gotra or not. Please help me.

    Thanks in Advance.

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  13. Mahar and mahor cast ak he hai kya..plz reply

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  14. Mahor vaishya me kitne aur kon kon se gotra hai, plzz koi batayega

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  15. UP m kuch bania General me Q aate hai... Jabki kuch obc hai

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