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The fame of Maharaja Agrasen ji is spread as the father of Agrawal Samaj or Vaishya Samaj. Born in a Kshatriya clan, Agrasen ji had great hatred for sacrificing animals etc., so he left his Kshatriya religion and accepted Vaishya religion. Known for his kindness and compassion, Maharaja Agrasen ji had established Agroha, the kingdom of merchants. And all the 18 gotras of Agrawal society were born in the name of these 18 sons.
Maharaja Agrasen, the grandfather of the Agrawal society, was born in the Dhapar era. In the last phase, Ashwin Shukla Pratipada i.e. on the first day of Navratras, his birthday is celebrated as Agrasen Jayanti by Agarwal Samaj with pomp. Maharaja Agrasen was born as the eldest son of King Vallabh and Mata Bhagwati of Pratap Nagar in Suryavanshi Kshatriya clan, who later built the Agrawal Samaj and established Agroha Dham. It is also said about Maharaja Agrasen ji that, at the time of his birth, the great sage Garga had told his father Maharaj Vallabh that he would become a great ruler in future and a new governance system would emerge in his kingdom. And his name will remain immortal for ages. This is what happened in the future and till date Maharaja Agrasen ji is remembered. Let us tell you that Maharaja Agrasen was a person of very kind and compassionate nature, whose heart was full of compassion for animals, birds and animals including humans, this was the reason that he declared animal sacrifice etc. wrong in religious rituals. He had left his Kshatriya religion and established Vaishya religion.Apart from this, he was a great king who always thought about the welfare of his subjects, whose fame was spread as a beloved king.
On the orders of Mata Lakshmi, Maharaja Agrasen, the beloved king of Pratapnagar, set out on a tour of India with his queen to select a place for a new kingdom. At one time during his journey, he saw some tiger cubs and wolf cubs together during his journey and he chose this as an auspicious sign and a place of bravery and established his new kingdom Agroha.Let us tell you that in the beginning, on the advice of some sages and astrologers, he named his new state as Agreyagana, which was later changed to Agroha. Let us tell you that Agroha is located near Hisar in Haryana state, where there is a huge temple of Mata Lakshmi where the goddess is sitting in a very attractive form. Since the inception of this culture, which is known as Agroha. At present, a lot of development is going on in Agroha. There is also a grand temple of Maharaja Agrasen and Mata Vaishnav Devi here.
Maharaja Agrasen, born in a Kshatriya clan, renounced his religion by condemning animal sacrifice in worship and religious rituals and founded the new Vaishya (Agrawal Samaj), and thus he became the father of the Agrawal Samaj, although the Agrawal Samaj The origin was done, but in the beginning it was not completely organized, 18 Yagya were performed to organize it, and then gotras were made on the basis of them. 18 sons of Agrasen Maharaj: Agrasen Maharaj had 18 sons, all those sons were given a vow of Yagya, which was completed by 18 sages. The Agravansh (Agrawal Samaj) was established in the name of all the 18 gurus sitting in the Yagya. Whereas in the 18th Yajna, when it came to animal sacrifice, Maharaja Agrasen, the founder of Agroha Dham of Pratapnagar, strongly opposed it and thus stopped animal sacrifice in the last war. The names of all the 18 clans of the Agrawal society are as follows
