Achra

Achra (ऐचरा) Ainchra (ऐंचरा) Achara (आचरा) Anchra (आंचरा) Aichra/ Aechra (ऐचरा) Ochra/Ochara (ओचरा) Ainchara (ऐंचरा) gotra Jats are found in Rajasthan, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh. They are Chandravanshi Kshatriyas. Achra/ Achak/Achi clan is found in Afghanistan. Achran (अचरान), an agricultural clan, found in Shahpur.

Origin

• Anchra (आंचरा) gotra Jats are said to get name from people living under the rule of Antargiri (अन्तर्गिरि).
• Acha - According to Rajatarangini A'cha, the son-in-law of Pramoda the king of Mathura, who was subject to the king of Kashmira, set up an image of Mahadeva named A'cheshvara. (Acheshvara-Achra)

• H. W. Bellew writes that Achra may stand for the Achi.

• Achra is said to get its name after Illa (इला) wife of Budha. Achra are also said to have got this name from Anglo people of Roma who came to India from Europe. Budha (बुध) was son of Chandra and progenitor of the Chandravansh. As per record of their bards, they are a branch of Chauhans.

• Bhikshachara - There is need to find relation of Bhikshachara and Achara Jat clan looking to curious history of Bhikshachara.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Achra = Achæi (Pliny.vi.5)
• Ochra = Auchetæ (Pliny.vi.7)

• Ochara = Ocharius (Pliny.vi.7)

• Achara = Ichara (Pliny.vi.32).

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Arabia......... We will now proceed to describe the coast after leaving Charax¹³, which was first explored by order of king Epiphanes. We first come to the place where the mouth of the Euphrates formerly existed, the river Salsus¹⁴, and the Promontory of Chaldone¹⁵, from which spot, the sea along the coast, for an extent of fifty miles,¹⁶ bears more the aspect of a series of whirlpools than of ordinary sea; the river Achenus, and then a desert tract for a space of one hundred miles, until we come to the island of Ichara; the gulf of Capeus, on the shores of which dwell the Gaulopes and the Chateni, and then the gulf of Gerra¹⁷. Here we find the city of Gerra, five miles in circumference, with towers built of square blocks of salt.

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13 Or rather, as Hardouin says, the shore opposite to Charax, and on the western bank of the river.

14 Called Core Boobian, a narrow salt-water channel, laid down for the first time in the East India Company's chart, and separating a large low island, off the mouth of the old bed of the Euphrates, from the mainland.

15 The great headland on the coast of Arabia, at the entrance of the bay of Doat-al-Kusma from the south, opposite to Pheleche Island.

16 This is the line of coast extending from the great headland last mentioned to the river Khadema, the ancient Achenus.

17 So called from the city of Arabia Felix, built on its shores. Strabo says of this city "The city of Gerra lies in a deep gulf, where Chaldæan exiles from Babylon inhabit a salt country, having houses built of salt, the walls of which, when they are wasted by the heat of the sun, are repaired by copious applications of sea-water." D'Anville first identified this place with the modern El Khatiff. Niebuhr finds its site on the modern Koneit of the Arabs, called "Gran" by the Persians; but Foster is of opinion that he discovered its ruins in the East India Company's Chart, situate where all the ancient authorities had placed it, at the end of the deep and narrow bay at the mouth of which are situated the islands of Bahrein. The gulf mentioned by Pliny is identified by Foster with that of Bahrein.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Lake Mieotis and the adjoining nations....Others again represent the Ocharius as running through the Cantici and the Sapæi, and the Tanais as passing through the territories of the Sarcharcei, the Herticei, the Spondolici, the Synhietæ, the Anasi, the Issi, the Catetæ, the Tagoræ, the Caroni, the Neripi, the Agandei, the Mandarei, the Satarchei, and the Spalei.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Lake Mieotis and the adjoining nations....Some writers say that the Auchetæ, the Athernei, and the Asampatæ, Scythian tribes, have made inroads upon this territory, and have destroyed the Tanaitæ and the Inapæi to a man.

History

According to Rajatarangini A'cha, the son-in-law of Pramoda the king of Mathura, who was subject to the king of Kashmira, set up an image of Mahadeva named A'cheshvara.

H. W. Bellew writes that Achak, a tribe held to be distinct from the others by the Durani themselves, I take to represent the Indian Achi or Achiholada, " The turbulent Achi," of the Rajataringini, a branch of the Damara (Dumar Kakar before noticed) tribe, which figures in the history of Kashmir as a powerful and turbulent people about Lahore and the northern Punjab in the reigns of Avantivarma, 857 to 886 A.D., and of Harsha, 1090 to 1102 A.D., both kings of Kashmir; they may represent tribes of the Tokhari or Toghiyani Turk, or of the Kator.

H. W. Bellew writes that The Achak, or Achakzi, are entirely pastoral and predatory, and inhabit the Kadani valley and north slopes of the Khojak Amran range to the Toba tablelands. But they wander far to the west, and are found scattered all over the country to Herat and Badghis, and parts of the Ghor country. They are reckoned at five thousand tents, and are in two divisions, viz., Bahadur and Gajan.

Bhisma Parva, Mahabharata/Book VI Chapter 10 describes geography and provinces of Bharatavarsha. Antargiri is listed in verse (VI.10.48).

Antargiri literally means 'inner mountains' and denotes the same high ranges as the Pali Mahahimavanta. It is the great Central Himalayas which comprises those highest peaks having altitude of 18000 feet and more like Gaurishankara, Nandadevi, Kedaranatha etc. Antargiri is also mentioned by Panini (V.4.112).

The vast Expanse of High land beyond mid Himalayas extending to the Great Himalayas and further beyond to the edge of Tibetan plateau is known as the Inner Himalayan region or Himadri. In Mahabharata it is defined asw Antargiri.

The tribes living in Antargiri, Vahirgiri and Upagiri were conquered by Arjuna in course of his northern expedition.

Antargiri is place between the Himalayan Ranges (Mbt, Bhisma Parva 9.49) . Arjuna conquered this place (Mbt, Sabha Parva 27.3), Antargiri has been identified with the Rajamahal hills in the district of Santal Pargana in the province of Bengal (Matsya, 113,44).

Villages founded by Achra clan

• Acharon Ki Dhani (आचरों की ढाणी) - village in district Jaipur, Bhawanipura (भवानीपुरा), Dheerajpura (धीराजपुरा)- Villages in district Sikar in Rajasthan. Jejusar - village in district Jhunjhunu - Rajasthan

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Nagaur district

Bhadwa, Dharna, Indokha Makrana, Jhunjharpura (250), Kheri Khinwasi (1), Roopathal,

Villages in Sikar district

Achron Ki Dhani, Banathla, Bhawanipura Srimadhopur, Dheerajpura, Jassi Ka Bas, Jerthi, Katrathal, Panlawa, Rulyani, Shahpur Bawdi, Shahpura Mandha, Shahpura, Sikar, Ramsinghpura, Sewa, Tiroki Chhoti,

Villages in Jhunjhunu district

Deogaon Nawalgarh, Kari, Kant Jhunjhunu, Jejusar,

Villages in Hanumangarh district

Bharwana, Kulchander, Mirjawali Mair,

Villages in Churu district

Chhabri Khari (20), Ghumanda (20), Gorisar, Jodi, Ladariya, Raghunathpura Ratangarh (50), Sahwa, Sangasar, Sujangarh (5), Tidiyasar (10),

Villages in Jhalawar district

Aklera,

Locations in Jaipur district

Bhainslana, Bugaliya, Kalwar Road, Kudiyon Ka Bas, Manda Bhopawas, Mansinghpura, Mundota, Moruda,

Villages in Jaipur district

Acharon Ki Dhani,

Villages in Tonk district

Bagadi (13), Ganeti, Hanotia Naner (1), Janka (1), Kacholya (1), Soran ka Bas, Wajirpura (8),

Distribution in Haryana

Villages in Hisar district

Bandaheri,

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Ratlam district

Delanpur (1), Surana (1),

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Dhar district

Akolya, Karanpura Dhar,

Villages in Khandwa district

East Nimar

Distribution in Punjab

Villages in Patiala district

Achral Kalan, Achral Khurd villages in Samana tahsil in Patiala district in Punjab.

Notable persons

• Arhat Achara - Alexander Cunningham writes that From Konkana the pilgrim Xuanzang proceeded to the north-west for Maharashtra. The name of Kaliyana also occurs several times in the Kanhari Cave inscriptions, which date from the first and second centuries of the Christian era. On the eastern frontier of the kingdom there was a great mountain with ridges rising one over another, and scarped crests. In former days the Arhat Achara had built a monastery, with rooms excavated in the rock, and a front of two storeys in height facing a " sombre" valley. Alexander Cunningham has identified this vihara to be Ajanta.

• Dr. Ram D Mehta - Internationally known scientist in the field of genetic toxicology,University Alberta,Canada

• Mukna Ram Achra - a freedom fighter and reformer from Gorisar in Rajasthan.

• Gaurav Achra - Manager GE India Pvt Ltd , Date of Birth : 13-August-1980, VPO.- Bheslana ,Via -Phulera,Distt.- Jaipur, Rajasthan, Present Address : 15, Choudhary Colony, Kartarpura,Jaipur ,Rajasthan, Phone Number : 0141-2500020, Mob: 9866320377, Email Address : Gaurav Achra@ge.com

• Rajeev Achra - CTO, Date of Birth :- 10 Oct 1983, Village - Jejusar, Current Add - Jaipur, Mob: 9828651234

• Bajrang Lal Achra - Advocate, Achron Ki Dhani, PO- Banathala. Mob:9414634684, Ph:01576-235051

• Kushla Ram Achra - From village Deogaon Nawalgarh was killed by Jagirdars in 1945

• Col. Ranveer Singh Achra, Arty (Jhunjhunu) - Shaurya Chakra

• Bhagirath Mal Swami (Achra) - From village Jejusar (Jhunjhunu), Disciple of Guru Mukh Ram Dahiya of village Bakra who was Follower of Dadupanthi sect. His statue is at Dhigal Jhunjhunu (Jhunjhunu). He was Pradhan of Nawalgarh Panchayat Samiti four times. Sarpanch of Dhigal once. He was advocate by profession. Died in 1978.
• Dharmendra Anchra - From Jhunjharpura (Bhadwa Parbatsar), Nagaur, Rajasthan, is social worker and journalist. Presently settled at Jaipur. Mob: 9950150000. His father was Ugma Ram Ji Anchra.

References

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