Gahoi

Gahoi

Gahoi

Central Indian merchant community

Gahoi is a merchant Vaishya-Baniya community in central India. [1][2]

Gahois are divided into 12 gotras, each gotra is divided into six alls.[3] They have traditionally interdined with the Parwar Jain community of Bundelkhand.[4]

The "Grahapati" family mentioned in the Grahapati Kokkala inscription is believed to be from the same community that is now known as Gahoi.[5] This inscription at Khajuraho, dated Vikram Samvat 1056, Kartika (1000–1001 AD), is the earliest known reference to the Grahapati family.[6] Unlike all other Chandella-era Grahapati inscriptions which are Jain, this refers to a Shiva temple,[7] although Verse 3 suggests that the builder also worshipped Jinas. An inscription is of Vikram samvat 1011 mentioning Pahilla, regarded to have been a Grahapati, who built a Jain temple during the reign of Dhanga at Khajuraho. This temple is among those that still exist at Khajuraho.[8][9][10]

A bronze Jain Altarpiece with Parshvanatha, Shantinatha, and Vasupujiya is preserved in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[11] It was installed by Sadhu Sandhan, son of Kuntha, of Grahapati family in Vikram 1121 (1178 AD).[12]

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References

  1. [1]
    गहोई समाज ने मनाया होली मिलन समारोह, Bhaskar News Network, Mar 30, 2016,
  2. [2]
    अखिल भारतीय गहोई वैश्य महासभा के शताब्दी समारोह में समाज के मेधावी छात्र-छात्राओं को सम्मानित किया गया, Amar Ujala, 26 जून 2013
  3. [3]
    Vasudevasharan Agraval, "Sahitya sadan ki yatra", in Raashhtarkavi Maithiliisharana Gupt Abhinandan Granth, Ed. Agravaal Vaasudevasharana, 1959, Raashhtarkavi Maithiliisharana Gupt Abhinandan Committee Calcutta, p. 78.
  4. [4]
    [Siddhantacharya Phulachandra Shastri, Parwar Jain Samaj ka Itihas, 1990, Jabalpur, pp. 175-188 ]
  5. [5]
    Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri; Indian History Congress (1959). A Comprehensive History of India. Orient Longmans. ISBN 978-81-7304-561-5.
  6. [6]
    Svasti Śrī: Dr. B.Ch. Chhabra felicitation volume, K. V. Ramesh, Agam Prasad, S. P. Tewari, p. 139
  7. [7]
    Lalit kalā, Issue 10, Lalit Kala Akademi,1961, p. 64
  8. [8]
    Kasturchand Jain Suman, Bharatiya Digambar Jain Abhilekh aur Tirth Parichay, Madhya-Pradesh: 13 vi shati tak, Delhi, 2001, p. 14-17
  9. [9]
    H.V. Trivedi, "Inscriptions of the Paramaras, Chandellas, Kachchhapaghatas and two minor Dynasties", part 2 of the 3-part Vol III of Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, 1974 (published in 1991).
  10. [10]
    [Inscriptions of the Chandellas of Jejakbhukti,Ed. H.V. Trivedi, 1989, p. 456.]
  11. [11]
    Jain Altarpiece with Parshvanatha, Shantinatha, and Vasupujiya, dated 1121
  12. [12]
    Indian Sculpture: 700-1800, Volume 2 of Indian Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Pratapaditya Pal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, University of California Press, 1988 p. 306
  13. [13]
    Risi Jaimini Kaushik Barua, "Kankane Vansh ki Vrtiddhi, "Raashhtarkavi Maithiliisharana Gupt Abhinandan Granth, Ed. Agravaal Vaasudevasharana, 1959, Raashhtarkavi Maithiliisharana Gupt Abhinandan Committee Calcutta, p. 138.
  14. [14]
    http://gahoimumbai.com/entertainment/celebrity-information-about-actor-ashutosh-rana-ji-and-his-biography-filmography-and-awards/
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