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Maheshwar is believed to be built on the site of the ancient city of Somvanshya Shastrarjun Kshatriya, and was the capital of king Kartavirya Arjuna, (Shree Shastrarjun) who is mentioned in the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. According to a popular legend, one day the King Sahasrarjun and his 500 wives went to the river for a picnic.
According to the 2011 Census of India, Maheshwar had a total population of 1393, of which 745 (53%) were males and 648 (47%) were females. The population in the age range 0–6 years of age was 193. The total number of literate persons in Maheshwar is 878 (63%). The village consists of 311 households families. [3] [4]
According to 13th century text Brihaddharma Purana, children of Shudra fathers and Kshatriya mothers are dāsa, an Uttam Sankar (literally, good mixed) and their occupation is agriculture. [8] According to the Brahma Vaivarta Purana , whose chapter describing mixed castes was likely inserted after 16th century, [ 9 ] Kaivarta was one born of a ...
Close to Mandu is Maheshwar, a town on the northern bank of Narmada River that served as the capital of the Indore state under Ahilyabai Holkar. The Maratha rajwada (fort) is the main attraction. A life-size statue of Rani Ahilya sits on a throne within the fort complex. Dhar was the capital of Malwa before Mandu became the capital in 1405.
Mod (मोड़), the holy religious symbol of Maheshwari community. It contains a Trishul (trident) and in the middle prong of the Trishul there is a circle.
Kshatriya (Sanskrit: क्षत्रिय, romanized: Kṣatriya) (from Sanskrit kṣatra, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) [1] is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy. [2]
Maheshwar is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] BJP leader Rajkumar Mev represents the constituency in the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha .
The Brahmanda Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas mentions 64 Shakta pithas of the goddess Parvati in the Bharat or Greater India including present-day India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, some parts of Southern Tibet in China and parts of southern Pakistan.