Thursday 6 June 2013

Alha of the Banaphar Rajput


Alha of the Banaphar Rajput clan was the famous general of the great Chandel king Paramdidev, or Parmal, who fought Prithviraj Chauhan in 1182 CE. Alha's mother, Devaki, was a member of the Ahir caste. In the Puranas, when Mahpati (Mahil) states that Ahlada (Alsha) has come to be of "low family" (kule hinatvamagatah), it is because his mother is an Arya Abhiri (aryabhiri: ans "Aryan" Ahir)(13.88-91).Alha Udal bade ladaiya jinse haar gayi talwar (meaning "Alha and Udal were such great fighters that even swords were defeated by them"), the folklore of great military experts Alha and Udal, is still sung in the heartland of Bundelkhand. According to legends and folklores, Alha was undefeatable, as he was made immortal by the goddess Sharda. The shrine of the goddess is at Maihar in Madhya Pradesh (India). Folklore portrays Alha as having gifted his head to Sharda after cutting it off with a sword and the goddess, extremely pleased by the act, then makes him immortal. Alha also had two maternal brothers, Malkhan and Sulkhan, and folklore presents Malkhan as a man with enormous strength, represented in the sentence, "das das haathi bhuj par taule" (meaning "ten elephants were weighed by him on one hand"); the sentence is a form of poetic interpretation delivered through folklore.

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  1. Gaurav Bais Shame on you brother.Alha's mother was a Rajput not an Ahir .Mahil Parihar hated Banaphar Rajputs and called them low class Rajputs because of his jealousy. Mahil spread rumours that Alha mother is an Ahir and so Alha is a low class Rajput which is bullshit .Mahoba was taken away from Mahil Parihar's father by Chandel and Banafar Rajputs so Mahil Parihar hated us .Because of Mahil ,Prithviraj Chauhan attacked mahoba and this resulted in conflict between Mahoba and Delhi .Mahil Parihar was the reason of breaking unity of Rajputs and you are taking his reference and calling Alha's mother an Ahir? Mahil was traitor of Rajput community. He called Banafars as low class Rajputs so banafars Rajput brothers Alha and udal leave Mohaba and Mahoba become weak .Alha' mother was Mahil's maternal Sister whose name was Matchla .If Mahil was a parihar Rajput,how can his maternal Sister belong to Ahir community? In Wikipedia, Ahirs have edited that Alha's mother's name was devaki which is wrong. Brother,you saw some Ahirs claiming that Alha's mother was an Ahir and you believed them? I have seen gujjars claiming Prithviraj Chauhan was a gujjar ,will you belive such things about Prithviraj ji which is claimed by some gujjars ? Brother, Alha was a pure Rajput and even Alha's mother was a Rajput (maternal sister of Mahil Parihar) .However, it is said that Udal was abandoned by his mother when Brahmins claimed that Udal will be the reason for the death of his father and was raised by an Ahir woman but this has nothing to do with his mother's caste .

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    1. Yes you are 100% spot on. Udal was raised by an Ahir women. Ahir women were always acted as Nurses to Rajput kids. Same case was in princes Bundela clan of Rajput.but this doesnot mean they were direct mother. And Alha was part of Banaphar Rajput. Banaphar Rajput clan did not started from Alha. Dakshraj/Bacchraj father of Alha Udal were Banaphar Rajputs. You are right that internal rivalry of Rajput was the reason we hear such stupid things. How can mama say that bhanja is from other mother?? This drama is only because Udal was raised by Ahir mother.

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    2. Allah udal mother was haiheya vanshi ahir of sastrabahu kul read gwalior gajeetoir and allah khand ahir jaat gujjer and rajput are same jai ajgr ksatriya ekta

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    3. Brother how can u say that Allah was Rajput? U need to know more about Allah Udal actually the thing is that they belonged to Chandravansi Banafar Ahir Kshatriya and they both were commander of king parmal who was also a Chandravansi Yadav Kshatriya but king got married a Rajput girl whose name was malhanaI and her brother name was Mahil.Mahil belonged to Rajput community that's why he hated all the members of Ahir community.So please,stop spreading rumors about Allah Udal was Rajput.

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    4. Idiot Raja Parmal Dec was a Chandel ruler. There is no Banafar clan in Ahir till today, All Banafar are Rajput today. Ahir are low caste shudra. You talking marrying a daughter of ruler, Those days Ahirs had no aukaat. Go bark somewhere else. Chandel, Banafar are Rajput clan.

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    5. That's why you have origin from Raand ,Raandputra.

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    6. Aaa gaya apni okat pe sudra aurcbatate h, apne ko kshatrya

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    7. Abe agar itne bade kshatriya ho to aj tak na to apna koi tumne mehal dikya na koi sabha banai kshatriya nam se na tume duniya me koi kehta to kah ke kshatriya ho WhatsApp ke aarakshan manga bhikari banke ahir banke sena me mang kar re ahir regiment ke aur keh raha apne ko kshatriya

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    8. Sala chutia ahir ja dudh bech le

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    9. Ave 🤣 kya bakvas kar rakhi ye,,tujhe jab kuchh pata nahi to gyan mat bata kar kahan per likha hai ki inki maa Rajput thi aur inke pita rajput the tune ek bhi source nahi diya bhavishya Puran me saf saf likha hai devki ek Raja dalti ki putri thi aur use vardan diya tha maa Sharda ne ki tumhara putra surveer hoga,, devki haihayi vansh ki kshatriya Raja dalpti ki putri thi,, Rajput ek shudra ishtri se paida hua kahlata hai iska varnan skand Puran me milta hai aur shatra विधा aur yuddh me kushal tatha shudra dharm vala hota hai 😕,,ab nikal yahan se 🤣

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  2. Gourav ji mai aalha udal vansj Amar Singh Banaphar. Aapko jo bhi jankari chahiye is number par sampark Karen.
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  3. Ye rajput ka chutyaap 1000ad ke aaspaas hua, yadav sab to mahabharat kaal se hai.

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  4. Inki jalti h jalate raho

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