Bisla

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Bisla (बिसला)[1][2] Bisala (बिसला)[3] Visla (विसला) Visala (विसला)[4] [5] Bisle (बीसले)/Visle (विसले)[6] is a gotra of Jats found in Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

Origin

  • Bisla Jat gotra is said to be originated after an ancient king of the name Vrishaka (वृषक). [7].

Mention by Panini

Visa (विस) is name of a place mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi under Kashadi (काशादि) (4.2.80.5) group. [10]


Bisa (बिस) is name of a place mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi under Madhvadi (मध्वादि) (4.2.86) group. [11]


Pushkara (पुष्कर), padma (पद्म), utpala (उत्पल), bisa (बिस), mrinala (मृणाल), is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [12]

History

In Mahavansa

Manda, Visala, Kassapa - Mahavansa/Chapter 15 tells ...Third in our age of the world was the Conqueror of the Kassapa clan, the all-knowing Teacher, compassionate toward the whole world. `The Mahamegha-grove was called (at that time) Mahasagara; the capital, named Visãla, lay toward the West. Jayanta was the name of the king of that region then, and this isle bore then the name of Mandadipa. At that time a hideous and life-destroying war had broken out between king Jayanta and his younger royal brother. When Kassapa, gifted with the ten powers, the Sage, full of compassion, knew how great was the wretchedness caused to beings by this war, then, to bring it to an end and afterwards to achieve the converting of beings and progress of the doctrine in this island, he, urged on by the might of his compassion, came through the air surrounded by twenty thousand (disciples) like to himself, and he stood on the Subhakuta-mountain.

In Rigveda

Beesla/Bisla is one of the Rigvedic tribes: A king of this clan, Taksaka Vaisaleya is mentioned in AV 8/10/29. This is the present Visala/Bisla clan.

In Mahabharata

Book II Chapter 31 - Kshatriyas brought tributes on the occasion of Rajasuya sacrifice of Yudhisthira: Vrishaka was one them.

In Mahabharata war Gandhara chief Vrishaka and Achala battled with Arjuna (7,28)

Distribution in Uttar Pradesh

Villages in Hapur district

Nawada Kalan, Sadullapur Lodhi

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Tonk district

Lalwadi (3),

Distribution in Haryana

Villages in Hisar district

Dhana Khurd, Khedad, Rajthal, Mehanda

Villages in Faridabad District

Dayalpur, Maujpur,

Villages In Jind

Some Houses in Karsindhu

Villages In Rohtak

Gudhan,

Distribution in Punjab

Villages in Nawanshahr district

Mallah Sodhian,


Villages in Patiala district

Asarpur

Notable person from this gotra

  • Dr. Manoj Bisla - Health, 11/26, Mushan Dental Clinic, Upper GrouNew Delhi Floor, West Patel nagar, New Delhi. 011-25882653, 9312250704, NCR (PP-422)

External Links

References

  1. Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. ब-151
  2. O.S.Tugania:Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu, p.52, s.n. 1783
  3. B S Dahiya:[[Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study), p.237, s.n.30
  4. Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. व-42
  5. O.S.Tugania:Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu, p.52, s.n. 1783
  6. O.S.Tugania:Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu, p.52, s.n. 1789
  7. Mahendra Singh Arya et al: Adhunik Jat Itihas, p. 266
  8. Hukum Singh Panwar: The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/An Historico-Somatometrical study bearing on the origin of the Jats,p.151
  9. आ पक्थासो भलानसो भनन्तालिनासो विषाणिनः शिवासः | आ यो.अनयत सधमा आर्यस्य गव्या तर्त्सुभ्यो अजगन युधा नर्न || RV VII/18/7
  10. V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.502
  11. V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.505
  12. V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.215

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