Gandawal

Gandawal (गंदावल) Gandha (गन्धा) Gandhasa (गन्धासा) is gotra of Jats in Uttar Pradesh.

Origin

This gotra originated from place named Gandhamadana (गन्धमादन) mountain, (near Kailasa, Tibet), mentioned in Mahabharata.

History

We find inscription about Gandha in Bharhut 'No. XVI. Pillar'.

22. Gandha Kuti. = " The Gandha Temple."

Sirpur stone Inscription of Mhahasivagupta

'Sirpur stone Inscription of Mhahasivagupta' mentions about Gandhesvara:

...An additional village named Vargullaka is stated to have been given separately to the god himself, for meeting the expenses of offerings to him (v. 36). The engraver was a certain Ārya Goṇṇa (v. 35), the same who wrote the slab built flat into the pavement of the new work outside the court wall of the Gandhesvara temple at Sirpur.

Like other inscriptions of Sirpur this is also undated, and therefore its age can only be determined from its characters, which, as stated before, belong to the 8th or 9th century A.D. Mahasivagupta who is mentioned in almost all the inscriptions so far found in Sirpur, seems to have been a temple-builder, or at least he encouraged others to build them. Apparently he was a Saiva, although his mother was a Vaishnava and so was his father who is described in verse 20 as upāsitāchyutah, i.e. by whom Vishnu was worshipped. From an inscription in the temple of Gandhesvara as given in an inscription affixed to the parapet there.

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