Jondhra

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Jondhra () is a village in Masturi tahail of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh.

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Jat Gotras Namesake

  • Jandran = Jandera (जण्डेरा) = Jondhra. Jondhra is a village in Masturi tahail of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh. Jandera is mentioned in Verse-26 of Amoda Plates Of Jajalladeva II - (Kalachuri) Year 919 (=1167 AD)....(V. 26) Dharmatâja, the son of the illustrious Vatsarâja (and) the owner of (the village) Jandera, who is to the Vâstavya family what the sun is to a cluster of day-lotuses and who is to the crowd of hostile warriors as fire is to fuel, verily wrote (on these plates of) copper here. [5]

Location

It is situated 35km away from Masturi and 52km away from district headquarter Bilaspur. According to Census 2011 information the location code or village code of Jondhra village is 438934. Jondhra village is located in Masturi tehsil of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh, India. As per 2009 stats, Jondhara is the gram panchayat of Jondhra village. The total geographical area of village is 969.22 hectares.[6]


History

Jandera, the village owned by the writer Kîrtidhara is probably identical with Jondrâ (long 82°,21' E. and lat 21°, 44' N.) on the left bank of the Seonath river, about 4 miles outside the south-west limit of the Janjgir tahsîl. See Sarkho Plates of Ratnadeva II - Kalachuri year 880 (1128 AD).[7]

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