{"id":2419,"date":"2024-10-18T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T08:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/?page_id=2419"},"modified":"2024-10-19T04:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T04:35:59","slug":"an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"455\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/agroha-mandir.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/agroha-mandir.jpg 455w, https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/agroha-mandir-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheela Mata Temple, Agroha, Haryana<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction about Agroha &amp; Maharaja Agrasen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Agroha (Agra or Agr) Republic was established around 51 years before the war of Mahabharata. According to the writers of \u201cBhavishya Puran; KeAgravansh\u201d \u201cVanishanukirtnam\u201d and \u201cUru Charitam\u201d Maharaja Agrasen ruled about 5000 years back over Agroha around the time of Mahabharata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to live in heaven after death, we shall have to live in heaven before death\u201d avowed Maharaja Agrasen, a king of great administrative skill. His concepts of kingdom and the duties of the king towards his subjects evolved him as a centurial man. Equality, Nationalism, Socialism and Non-Violence were the principles which formed the backbone of his kingship.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/postage-stamp-maharaja-agrasen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2427\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The Government of India issued a postage stamp in honour of Maharaja Agresen in 1976.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Agrasen was a legendary Indian king (Maharaja) of Agroha, a city of traders. The Agrawal and Agrahari communities claim descent from him. He is credited with the establishment of a kingdom of traders in North India named Agroha, and is known for his compassion in refusing to slaughter animals in yajnas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legends and Believes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Maharaja Agrasen was a vysya king of the Solar Dynasty who adopted Vanikadharma for the benefit of his people. Literally, Agrawal means the \u201cchildren of Agrasen\u201d or the \u201cpeople of Ag\u201d, a city in ancient Kuru Panchala, near Hisar in Haryana region said to be founded by Maharaja Agrasen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bharatendu Harishchandra\u2019s account, Maharaja Agrasen was a Suryavanshi Kshatriya king, born during the last stages of Dwapar Yuga in the Mahabharat epic era, he was contemporaneous to Lord Krishna. He was a descendant of Suryavanshi King Mandhata. King Mandhata had two sons, Gunadhi and Mohan. Agrasen was the eldest son of the King Vallabh, descendant of Mohan, of Pratapnagar. Maharaja Agrasen fathered 18 children, from whom the Agrawal gotras came into being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shree Baldau ji Temple (GARB GRAH)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sri Bhawani Prasad Ji Son of Shri Bhajan Lal Ji<\/strong>&nbsp;had one son \u2013<strong>Shri Gopal Das Ji.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Sri Gopal Das Ji<\/strong>&nbsp;had no descenders, so he adopted Sri Laxmi Narain Ji, son of his nephew Durga Prasad Ji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Gopal Das Ji migrated from Etawah to Hamirpur, where he purchased Jamindari in 3 villages of Hamirpur and constructed a temple of Sri Baldauji in the year 1880.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time the family was a very close nit when&nbsp;<strong>Sri Bhoorey Lal Ji, Sri Durga Prasad Ji and Sri Gopal Das Ji<\/strong>&nbsp;all were very close to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus the temple of &#8216;Shri Baldauji Maharaj&#8217; founded after migrating to Hamirpur from Etawah \u2013 also mark the birth of a son to Laxmi Narayan&#8217; named Dau Dayal after the deity of the temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main part of the temple comprising of &#8220;Garbhagrah&#8221; housing Balram, the elder brother (Dauji) of lord Krishna and also an incarnation of Aditatva (elemental nature) and Sankarashan, Anantnaag, and one of three Ram&#8217;s of Sanatan scriptures &#8211; Ram, son of Dashrath &#8211; king of Ayodhaya, Parsuram, the great angry incarnation of Vishnu and Balram and his wife Revati and younger brother Lord Krishna. It is said the founder wanted to put &#8216;Radha Rani&#8217;, But every time they tried, the statue always felt down refusing to sit with her consort- before her jeth &#8211; her consorts elder brother. With the passage of time and due lack of upkeep &#8211; the temple deteriorated in condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has a &#8216;Shivalaya&#8217; also with five statues, Shiv Linga and Nandi. In 2009 temple of \u2018Maa Durga Ji\u2019 has also been added to the main temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some light is thrown by the 2 stone planks of the temple which are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mandir2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mandir2.jpg 652w, https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mandir2-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mandir-temple.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mandir-temple.jpg 684w, https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mandir-temple-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction about Agroha &amp; Maharaja Agrasen Agroha (Agra or Agr) Republic was established around 51 years before the war of Mahabharata. According to the writers of \u201cBhavishya Puran; KeAgravansh\u201d \u201cVanishanukirtnam\u201d and \u201cUru Charitam\u201d Maharaja Agrasen ruled about 5000 years back over Agroha around the time of Mahabharata. In order to live in heaven after death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/narrow.php","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agarwals.co.in\/site1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}