Cult of Jakhs in Kutch

Author(s): Francoise Mallison
Publisher: ZZ_Anusandhan

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मार्च 2010 225 अनुसन्धान 50 (2) Foot-Notes 1 Cf. Harald Tambs-Lyche, Power, Profit and Poetry ; Traditional Society in Kathiawar, Western India, New Delhi: Manohar, 1997. 2 Dalpatram P. Khakhar, "History of of the Kamphatas of Kacch" in Indian Antiquary, 7 (February 1878), pp. 45-53, and in D.P.Khakhar, Report on the Architectural and Archaeological Remains in the Province of Kacch,, with five papers by the late Sir Alex. Burnes, reprinted at Patna : Indian India, 1978 (1st ed., Bombay: Government Central Press, 1879), p. 3-13. 3 Cf. M.S. Moray, History of Buddhism in Gujarat, Ahmedabad : Saraswati Pustak Bhandar, 1965, and A.S. Gadre, "Buddhist Influence in Gujarat and Kathiawar", Journal of the Gujarat Research Society, (Bombay), 1939, 1-4, p. 61-70. 4 The etymology of Jakh can only lead to Sanskrt yaksa, the guardian demigods or servants of Kubera, the god of wealth. 5 Alexander Burnes, "An Account of the Ruins near Mujjul or Munjul in Cutch", appendix no. IV,, in Dalpatram P. Khakhar, op.cit., note 8. 6 L.F. Rushbrook Williams, The Black Hills, Kutch in History and Legend : A Study in Indian Local Loyalties, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1958, pp.83-88, and ill. 7. Ibidem, p.86-87. 8 On Jakhau see G.D. Patel, ed., Gujarat State Gazetteers, Kutch District, Ahmedabad : Government Press, Gujarat State, 1971, p. 598. 9 I had the oportunity to discover a new sanctuary of Jakhs in January 2001 at a place named leliya, four kilometers of Jangi (Bhachau taluka). The shrine, open air, was renovated in 2000 and showed the present vividness of cult. 10 Cf. Rushbrook Williams, op.cit. , note 20, p. 85. 11 Dalpat Shrimali, Harijana santa ane lokasahitya [kamthasthathi granthastha), Ahmedabad : Gujarata grantharatna karyalaya, repr. 1993 (1st ed. 1989), p. 223f. 12 Cf. S. Nanjiani, Khoja vrttanta, Ahmedabad : 2nd ed., 1892, p. 133 136. Jakhs images at the Jakhs shrine of the village Jakh (Nakhatrana Taluka)