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330 Jijñāsā
"Pāntrīsnā vrakhe Revājī nāave dhramasiā bhanḍāru krel che.46
(Dharamsih performed the bath of the Narmada in Vi.San. 1835, and arranged a Bhanḍāro (feast for the community).)
Thus, we come to know the religious faith and the tradition of pilgrimage prevailing in the Hindus from the Vahis. Faith and love, for religion helped the Hinduism to face the foreign invasion by the people of other religions. We learn from the Vahis that river-bath was also considered to be a holy rite besides visiting a temple. The Vahis maintains both the legal as well as the social and cultural records for the future generations, and thus it is a very important source of authentic information about the social life of a the past. The chroniclers have taken into consideration the historical, social, cultural, economical, archaeological etc. aspects while updating the records, but unfortunately, the logical and true mentality of not allowing other chroniclers to use the specific symbols has been the reason why they have not been able to become the subject of study so far. Today the situation is different. The Bārot chroniclers are no more. The tradition is on the verge of extinguishing. The information that has been already stored in the Vahi is of much importance from the research point of view, and I believe, that whatever information we have in the Vahis should be analyzed in detail, as they contain a lot of cultural details. Any researcher would naturally feel that the cultural examples cited in the Vahis must be included in the cultural history of our great nation.
References:
1. The Vahis book of Rāval Bhimji Bhārmalla (Morzar, Tā-Nakhatrāṇā) Dt. 14/2/1995.
2. From the copy of Mr. Narendrasinh Jhala (Ahmedabad).
3. From the Vahi of Sāgarkumar Bārot (Saypar) Dt. 18/11/1994.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7. Carani Sahitya Bhandar, The Dept. of Gujarati language and Literature, Saurastra University: 327/5125.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. From the Vahi of Mr. Kesubhai Bārot (Jūnāgaḍh), Dt. 15/2/1995.
14. From the Vahi of Mr. Keśubhai Bārot (Mālia), Dt. 10/2/1995.
15. From the Vahi of Mr. Keśubhai Bārot (Jūnāgaḍh), Dt. 15/2/1995. 16. From the Vahi of Mr. Keśubhai Bārot (Māliā), Dt. 10/2/1995. 17. From the Vahi of Mr. Bhimji Raval (Morzar), Dt. 14/3/1995. 18. From the Vahi of Mr. Haribhai Bārot (Ghuntu), Dt. 7/1/1995.
19. Carani Sahitya Bhandar, The Dept. of Gujarati language and Literature, Saurastra University 293/296/298.
20. Parajvans prakās, Part-14: Sāgarkumar Bārot: pp.402-403.
21. Ibid. Part-5, pp. 129-133.
22. From the Vahi of Mr. Raval Bhimji Dev (Morzar), Dt. 14/2/1995. 23. From the Vahi of Mr. Keśubhai Bārot (Junagadh), Dt. 26/2/1995. 24. From the Vahi of Mr. Kesarbhāi Bārot (Māliā), Dt. 10/3/1995. 25. Parajvansaprakās, Part-9: Sāgarkumar Bārot: pp. 259-260. 26. Saurastrano Itihas, Sambhuprasad Desai: pp. 364-365.
