ORIGIN OF MAHESHWARIS

March 30, 2008

Once upon a time, king, Raja Khandelsen was the ruler of

Kahandelgram, a part of Rajasthan, India. He was blessed with two

beautiful queens, Rani Suryakuvar and Rani Indrakuvar. However, the

king did not have any children, thus no one to carry his name or

kingdom. He performed many pujas, yagnas and much charity to help

the poor, but no avail. Finally, one day he shared his sorrow with

his spiritual advisor, Maharishi Yagyavalk. Maharishi Yagyavalk told

him that he was cursed from his previous life and this was the

reason he was still childless.

Then the Maharishi explained to the king " In your previous life, you

earned your living through killing and selling of animals flesh.

Once, you aimed your bow and arrow at a pregnant deer and killed

her. As she died in pain, she placed a curse upon you saying, " You

shall be childless! " However, you felt guilty from this act, and

went to Pushkar where you took bath in the pious pond, to wash off

your sins. This religious act helped you become a king in this life.

To recover from this past curse, there is one solution that I shall

explain to you. Not too far from here in Bhashkar state, there is a

Pipal tree, under which a Shivling is buried. You should get this

Shivling out and make a beautiful temple for Lord Shiva, in which

this Shivling must be embellished with respect and devotion. " The

king did exactly as he was told, in addition he recited the " Om,

Namah Sivaya " shloka for two years. With this pious and religious

act, Lord Shiva became happy and the king was blessed with a son,

whom he named Sujansen.

Once the prince Sujansen was born, the spiritual advisor made his

Kundali, to chart out his graha and nakhshatra. He shared the graha

position findings with King Khandelsen and said " Your son will be

handsome, masculine, and powerful; however due to an unforeseen

incident he will suffer from sorrow for a short while, but that will

eventually result in a happy ending. "

The Prince Sujansen was married to princess Chadravati, a daughter

of King Yudhaveer. After this marriage, the King Khandelsen handed

over the kingdom to his son Sujansen, and moved to the forest for

his retirement. One day King Sujansen went into the forest to hunt

with his seventy-two soldiers as part of his routine. As the King

and his soldiers were hunting, they got lost and became hungry.

Soon, they sensed an aroma, as if someone was cooking good food, and

they followed this aroma and reached a place where six rishis were

performing yagna for Lord Shiva.Due to extreme hunger, the king and

soldiers started eating prasad, drinking water from the nearby pond

that was reserved for the yagna puja, and also started washing their

stained bows and arrows in it. This broke the rishis' concentration,

and they cursed king and his seventy-two soldiers to turn into

stones.

Back in the kingdom, the queen and other 72 wives of soldiers were

waiting for their husbands to return for months, and finally Queen

Chandravati went to see Maharishi Jabali. The Rishi Jabali explained

the situation in its entirety and suggested that she and all other

72 wives of soldiers should go to the temple near the pond and

worship Lord Shiva for their husbands' life.

At this time, in Kailashparvath, in the Himaliyas Lord Shiva and his

beautiful wife Parvati were residing. Lord Shiva told Parvati that

he needs to visit Earth, some of his worshipers were performing

ygana and he needs go and show his satisfaction towards the

successful completion of yagna. Parvati, loves her husband dearly,

and did not like to part from her husband. This time Parvati

insisted that she also goes with Shiva to Earth. Lord Shiva said to

Parvati, " Dear, you are very kind hearted, you will not be able to

bear the pains of the people living on Earth. As always, you will

ask me to take away all of their sorrows, so it is better you stay

here till my return to Kailashparvath " . Mata Parvati insisted and

said, " No, I must go with you " . After a while, Lord Shiva said, " As

you wish! " and they both started their journey to Earth where the

rishis were performing the yagna.

As Lord Shiva and Mata Parvati, reached the site, Parvati Mata saw

the queen and all other wives were crying for their husbands' stone

figures. Lord Shiva explained the situation to Mata Parvati. Mata

immediately said to Lord Shiva " You must give these husbands another

life, because when I can not live without you even for a fraction of

a second, how can you expect me to leave this place while these

wives are so sorrowful in life without their husbands. " Lord Shiva

said " This is what I was afraid of when you decided to join me for

this journey; in any case I must do so " .

At this point, Lord Shiva brought king and other seventy-two

soldiers back to life, and told king Sujansen " Because you have

performed sinful activities, taking away lives of God's creatures,

and have misused your power, you have suffered from this incident.

From now on, since I am giving all of you a second life, you will be

known after my name as " Mahesh-waris " . You will also stop your role

of Kshatriya and play a new role of Vaishya, Vaishya Dharam , which

is a role of non-violence. Sujansen to compensate for your violent

tendency, from now on you will make living through donations from

your other seventy-two Vaishaya brothers and you will perform the

task of documenting their family trees " .

At once, all came to life as if they were awakening from a long

sleep. However, they were hesitant to accept their wives, since they

still belonged to the Kshatriya caste. At this point, Parvati Mata

said, " All of you take four parikramas around me, whoever are wife

and husband; their gathbandhan will be joined auto-magically " . At

this, everyone did so, and they re-joined as husbands and wives. Due

to this, four feras (parikramas) are done outside, during the

Maheshwari weddings, as a reminder of our origin. Lord Shiva gave

this blessing to the new seventy-two Vaishyas on the 9 th day of

Jyesth, Shukla Paksh in the year 9 of Yudhisthira Sanvat. On this

day, newlywed brides and grooms are appointed to do Lord Shiva and

Mata Parvati's puja so that they can also be blessed with children

and live a happy and joyous life eternally.

While the seventy-two soldiers were bathing in the pond, their bows

and arrows were melted, and after this the pond was named " Loh-

Garl " . Due to the incident in this story, new seventy-two Maheshwari

khanp (Last) names were created. After this, additional five

Kshatriya last names were also added to the original seventy-two

last names.

Khandela town is about 10 miles away from Phulera junction of Jaipur

district. Loh-Garl area still has a water bath, which is 20-25 miles

away from the Ringus junction, near the mountains. Birla, one of

India's most prestigious families has established a sanatorium near

the Didwana of Nagour distict.

March 30, 2008

" you will be known after my name as " Mahesh-waris " . "

You put wrongly,in fact the correct word is

" MAHESH - WORRIES " .

Tum to Lord Mahadev ke liye bhi chinta ka vishai ho.

You just cut and paste, give the reference of Puran

out of 18 or other text.

Ratnaakar

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