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Kharnal is a village in
Nagaur Nagaur (also Nagor and Nagore) is a city and municipal council in Nagaur district of the state of Rajasthan in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Nagaur District. The Nagaur city lies about midway between Jodhpur and Bikaner. Na ...
district of
Rajasthan, India Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northweste ...
. It is birthplace of popular folk deity
Veer Teja Veer Tejaji (29 January 1074 - 28 August 1103) “ ''As per historians, he was born on Friday, Magha Shukla 14 samvat 1130 (29 January 1074)''. also known as Tejaji Maharaj, or simply Tejaji, was a great warrior, social reformer, cow protector ...
ji. He was born in the family of Tahar Dev and Ramkunwari Devi, who were Dhauliya Jats.


Demography

It is the main village of Dhaulya Jats. There are four branches of Dhaulyas descendants of Hema, Dulha, Dhanna and Pipa. Other Jat gotras in the village are Dahiya, Mahiya, Jakhar, Karvir and Benda. Other castes dwelling in the village are Muslims, Teli, Nayak, Balai, Luhar, Sunar, Brahman and Baniya. There is no Rajput. Kharnal has a total population of 2,812 peoples according to Census 2011. There is a big temple of Tejaji in Kharnal facing north direction. In the temple there is a brass statue of Tejaji with ''mukut'' and ''kalgi'' and a ''bhala'' in hand. Outside the village there is a small temple of Tejaji at a distance of 1.5 km from big temple. People of this village tell that the statue of Tejaji had come out of soil naturally. This statue is believed to be about 1000 years old. This temple is located in Dhawa johar, the water of which is used for drinking by the villagers. − Temple of Rajal, sister of Tejaji, who became sati with Tejaji, is situated at a distance of 1 km from village in the east direction. Kharnal is also a village in Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir.


See also

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Tejaji Veer Tejaji (29 January 1074 - 28 August 1103) “ ''As per historians, he was born on Friday, Magha Shukla 14 samvat 1130 (29 January 1074)''. also known as Tejaji Maharaj, or simply Tejaji, was a great warrior, social reformer, cow protector ...
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Sursura Sursara, also known as Sursura is a village in Kishangarh tehsil in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan, situated 8 km south of Rupangarh town on Parbatsar - Kishangarh road. This is the place where the Jat folk-deity Tejaji di ...
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Paner Paner is a village in Ajmer district in Rajasthan. This village is associated with the folk-deity Tejaji, as it was his sasural. See also *Tejaji * Sursura *Kharnal Kharnal is a village in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. It ...


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Villages in Nagaur district {{Ajmerdivision-geo-stub