Bhor Saidan

Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R)

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Location of Pehowa in Kurukshetra District

Bhor Saidan (भौरसयैदा) is a medium-size village in Pehowa tahsil of Kurukshetra district in Haryana.

Variants

• Bhurisara भूरिसर, हरयाणा, (AS, p.676)
• Bhour Saidan
• Bhoor Saiydan

Location

Bhor Saidan is located 22 km from Kurukshetra and 13 km west of Thanesar on the Kurukshetra-Pehowa road near Bhureeshwar Temple, one of the pilgrimage sites on the river bed of now extinct Sarasvati River in Kurukshetra in the Indian state of Haryana.

Bhor Saidan village is located in Pehowa Tehsil of Kurukshetra district in Haryana, India. It is situated 14km away from sub-district headquarter Pehowa and 15 km away from district headquarter Kurukshetra. The total geographical area of village is 810 hectares. Bhor Saidan has a total population of 2,289 peoples. There are about 422 houses in Bhor Saidan village. Pehowa is nearest town to Bhor Saidan.

Jat clans

• Bhoori: Bhoori gotra started from their ancestral Mahabharata kings Bhuri and Bhurisrava (भूरिश्रवा). Somadatta of the Kuru race with his three sons, all mighty chariot-fighters and heroes, viz., Bhuri, Bhurishrava, and Shala.
• Narwan

Origin

Bhor Saidan village was named after Kaurava hero Bhurisrava of Mahabharta, son of Somadutta the king of Vaishali.

History

Bhor Saidan Archeology mound: Bhor Saidan sits on an ancient archeological mound, on the banks of dried up river bed of Sarasvati River that dried up due to the movement of tectonic plates. Curator Archaeologist of Shrikrishna Museum in Kurushketra, Rajesh Purohit, discovered Painted Grey Ware culture (1200 BCE to 600 BCE)) pottery from the Vedic period of Mahabharata

Chairman of Kurukshetra University's geology department, Rk Chaudhari, who collaborated with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in 2006 to conducted a study of Bhor Saidan's course of Sarasvati river, explains that the sedimentary samples from Bhor Saidan and other sites along the Sarwasati river were similar to with those found in the upper Himalayas. Government of Haryana is working on implementing the plan to make the Sarasvati river flow again, by diverting the water from the Somb river, along Sarasvati river's ancient route from Adi Badri (Haryana), where the river emerges from Himalayas, to Pehowa via Bhor Saidan.

Bhurishrava Tirtha

Bhor Saidan Tirath with Bhurirava kund (pond named after Bhurisrava) who was killed by the Arjuna (one of the pandava) in Mahabharata war, is an ancient Tirth (sacred place) within 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra pilgrimage circuit of Hindu tirths.

भूरिसर, हरयाणा

भूरिसर (p.676): कुरुक्षेत्र में स्थित ज्योतिसर से 5 मील दूर पश्चिम में पहेवा (प्राचीन पृथुदक) जाने वाले मार्ग पर स्थित है. कहा जाता है कि कौरवों के वीर सेनानी भूरिश्रवा की मृत्यु इसी स्थान पर हुई थी. महाभारत द्रोणपर्व 143,54 में सात्यकि द्वारा भूरिश्रवा का खड्क से सिर काट दिया जाने का वर्णन है--'प्रायोपविष्टाय रणे पार्थेन छिन्नवाहवे, सात्यकि: कौरवेयाय खड्गेनापहरच्छिर:'.

Population

(Data as per Census-2011 figures)

Total Population	Male Population	Female Population
2289	1234	1055

External links

• नवभारत टाइम्स, 15.8.2015
• Information about Bhor Saidan village - villageinfo.in website