धनगर हे क्षत्रिय आहेत-Dhangars are Mainstream kshatriyas

 

धनगर आणि पशुपालक क्षत्रिय

ऋग्वेदातील आर्य-ब्राह्मण हे पशुपालन करणारे टोळी-संघ होते. त्यांचे कांस्य युगात भारतीय उपखंडात आगमन झाले. पशुपालन करणा-या या आर्यांचे मुख्य पशुधन गोधन होते. भारतीय उपखंडात आल्यानंतर या आर्यांनी शेती करण्यासही सुरुवात केली. पशुपालन जीवनपद्धतीमुळे शेती ही मुख्यतः गायी व अश्व यांना चारा देण्याच्या हेतूने करण्यात येत असे. त्यासंदर्भातले एक सूक्त ऋग्वेदात आहे - क्षेत्रस्य पतीना वयं व हितेन जयामसी गामाश्वं पोशयिन्ता स‌नो मुळातिदृशे. सर्व ग्रंथांची निर्मिती हि भारतीय उपखंडामध्ये झालेली नाही हे आपण आधी लक्षात घेतले पाहिजे.

खुद्द पशुपालक -ब्राह्मण समाज हा समाज कांस्य युगामध्ये भारतीय उपखंडामध्ये दाखल झाला असून तो शिक्षित पशुपालक समाज होता असे ऋग्वेद मध्ये म्हटले आहे. त्यामुळे पशुपालाला वर्ण लागू होत नाही हे त्याचे प्रमुख कारण आहे.  आता काही लोक सर्व पशुपालांना धनगर म्हणतात हे चुकीचे आहे.

अनुवांशी प्रवास आपणास हे सांगतो कि धनगर हे क्षत्रिय आहेत.

Genetic studies

The widespread Palaeolithic mtDNA haplogroups and analysis of Y-DNA haplogroup in Dhangar clans highlight their Proto-Asian genetic ancestries. Dhangar heterogeneity is ascribable to predominantly South-Asian males and West-Eurasian females. Dhangar have a significant Pleistocene gene pool, corroborating... their "Proto-Asian" origin. As per J. H. Hutton they are Proto-Australoid. Kashyap (2006) designates 23 out of 54 Indian populations studied as Australoid, of which one speaks an Indo-European language (Shepherds of Maharashtra).

When the Eurasian cowherd & shepherds were migrated in Asia, that time so many Proto-Asian Shepherd and cowherd was Kings & Solders on Indian continent so Eurasian Shepherds & Cowherds mixed with Pro-Asian Shepherds & cowherds hence mixture of gene you can find in Maharashtra’s Shepherds & Cowherds that is Proto-Asian Male and West Eurasian female.

Dhangars are believed to be Indo-Aryans as the Aryans were shepherds. Dhangar follow many rituals which were followed by Aryans.

या वरून असे समजते हा क्षत्रिय वर्ण धनगर आणि पशुपालाकाकडे हिंदू धर्म च्या सुरुवाती पासून असावा .श्रीभालचंद्र नेमाडे यांचे "हिंदू" या पुस्तकातून आपल्या समजते कि वेदिक धर्मा मध्ये जाती मध्ये लग्न करणे बंदनकारकनव्हते,तसेच बरीच समृद्ध कुटुंब हा नियम पाळत नह्वती.

२.-रीग्वेद हा कर्म नुसार वर्ण स्यीकारायची परवानगी देतो, आणि मनुस्म्र्ती हि रीग्वेदाच्या खूप नंतर च्या कालखंडानंतर लिहिली आहे, कारण त्याचा लेखक अज्ञात असून त्यांना हे माहित नव्हतेपूर्व इतिहासा मध्ये पशुपालक, आणि मेश्पालक राजे राहिलेले आहेत.

३.राजपूत, ठाकूर , क्षत्रिय कोश या मध्ये हि उल्लेख सापडतो कि- काही क्षत्रियांनी न्यराश्यापोती आणि परकीयआक्रमामुळे पशुपालक आणि मेश्पालक झाले.या निकषावर हिंदू महासभेने १९१३ , १९३३ साली अजमेर बर्याच पशुपालक आणि मेश्पालक समाजांना क्षत्रिय वर्ण घोषितकेला होता. त्यांना विखुरलेल्या क्षत्रिय समाजाला एकत्र करण्याचा प्रयत्न केला होता.

४.प्राचीन धनगर कूळ गोत्र १९९२ , गणपतराव कोळेकर पहिले तर धनगर समाजातील ३६ कुळ गोत्रे हि राजपुतामध्ये हिआहेत, कुळ गोत्र नुसार तर राजपूत आणि धनगर एक आहेत अशी विलक्षण माहिती मिळते, पुढे जावून जर आपण बैस-राजपूत कागदपत्र पहिली तर बैस-राजपूत पण हाच विचार मांडतात.

५.लेखक- सुमितराव लोखंडे च्यांमते मुघल आणि ब्रिटिशकालीन नोंदीनुसार हाटकर मंडळींना वर्णाश्रम व्यवस्थेप्रमाणे 'क्षत्रिय' वर्णातील असल्याच्या नोंदी मिळतात. त्यानुसार कोणत्या हाटकर कुळांमध्ये पूर्वी 'वैदिक संस्कार' केले जात असत ? उपनयन (या संस्कारात यज्ञोपवीत (जानवे) धारण करणे हा मुख्य विधी असतो.) सध्या वर्तमानात कोणी हाटकर मंडळी शिखा ठेवणे किंवा जानवे धारण करणे या प्रथा पाळतात का ? मी दक्षिणेत अभ्यासदौरा करताना काळ्या मेंढीच्या लोकरीची जानवे हट्टीकार मंडळींनी धारण केलेले पाहिले आहे. 

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DHANGARS ARE MAIN STREAM KSHATRIYA

DHANGARS ARE KSHATRIYAS. KSHATRIYAS HAVE THREE MAJOR CASTES (OR ETHNIC GROUPS) - THE DHANGARS, THE RAJPUTS AND THE MARATHAS. THE RAJPUTS ARE INDO-SCYTHIANS AND MAINLY HAD THEIR KINGDOMS IN NORTH INDIA. THE RAJPUTS DID NOT ORIGINATE AS A TRIBE OR A SINGLE COMMUNITY. THEY EMERGE AS A COLLECTION OF CLANS RULING DIFFERENT REGIONS. THE TERM RAJPUT AS IT IS USED TODAY REFERS TO THE SET OF INTERMARRYING ROYAL CLANS. THE MARATHAS ARE INDO-ARYANS AND HAD AN EMPIRE WHICH SPREAD ALL OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH INDIA AND THE DHANGARS ARE PROTO-ASIANS AND HAD THEIR KINGDOMS IN SOUTH INDIA AND CENTRAL INDIA. RAJPUTS HAVE 36 CLANS, MARATHAS HAVE 96 CLANS AND DHANGARS HAVE 108 CLANS OUT OF WHICH 90 ARE KNOWN SO FAR IN INDIA. ORIGINALLY THESE CASTES WERE ONE AND HAD MUTUAL INTERACTIONS OF DINING TOGETHER AND INTERMARRYING AMONGST THEM.

·         THERE ARE MANY REFERENCES CORROBORATED THE FACT THAT, DHANGARS ARE KSHATRIYA. AS PER RESEARCH OF DR. SHYAM SINGH SHASHI, DHANGARS AND RAJPUT HAVE NEARLY 75% SAME OR COMMON GOTHRA.

·         IT IS STATED IN MANU SMRTI AT 10.95 THAT SHEPHERDING CAN BE OPTED BY A KSHATRIYA.

·         AS PER KSHATRIYA DHARMA ONE SHOULD EARN HIS BREAD AND BUTTER ON HIS OWN ABILITY. DHANGAR CANNOT BE SHUDRA ‘COZ SHUDRA MEANS SERVICE CLASS BUT ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IS AN INDEPENDENT PROFESSION.

·         KSHATRIYA STATUS WAS REAFFIRMED, CONFIRMED AND DECLARED IN 1933 IN THE CONFERENCE OF HINDU MAHASABHA WHICH WAS HELD AT AJMER.

During the time of hardship some kshatriya went on mountains with their cow and sheep’s they stayed there those people called as Dhangar references found in Bais Rajput documents.

Varna is purely based on karma (Work) of the particular person. for example 

Valya Koli (Valmiki Rushi) was not Brahmin but he had wrote Ramayan and his work is greater than any other Brahmin in that era. and Valmiki Rushi was teacher (Guru) of Lav and Kush in Ramayana. Lav & Kush was defeated entire army of Lord Ram including Senapati Lord Hanuman.

Olden times only kings was treated as Kshatriya (Avtar of Lord Vishnu), and land occupied by that king is wife according to Kshatriya Dharma, Simultaneously solders fighting for that particular king were also called as Kshatriya because they was doing protection on behalf of their king. 

Shepherd-Pal is the name of a chandravanshi Kshatriya Clan. Pal means protector. In Muslim invasion time all Kshatriyas' went to forests due to bad circumstances.

In order to re-organize all the scattered chandravanshi kshatriyas' a Hindu Maha Sa...mmelan was held in 1911 in Jaipur. Consequently, of Maha Sammelan of Jaipur in 1911, the two Mahasabhas' were established. One with the name of Akhil Bhartiya Pal Mahasabha and other was Akhil Bhartia Yadav Mahasabha.

Because the Chandravanshi's were further divided in two groups one is Kuruvanshi and another is Yaduvanshi. Commonly Pal and Yadavs known as Chandravanshi Kshatriyas'. By profession both groups known as (Gwala/Rajput/Kshatriya) in India. They are also known as Pal Kshatriya / Pal Thakurs / Pali Rajput / Dhangar in western part of country.

In above all Hindu Mahasabha they wants to In order to Re-Organize all scatterd Chandravanshi Kshatriya, and they found Dhangar in Chandravashi Kshatriya group.

Hindu mahasabha was held in 1933 in Ajmer,in that already confirm and Reconfirm that Dhangar come under Chandravansh In Kshatriya.

Dr. Ramachandra Chintamana Dhere argues that Shivaji's ancestor is Balipa or Baliyappa hailing from a place called Soratur near Gadag in north Karnataka. Another important claim apart from the geographical origins of Shivaji by Dr. Dhere is that Shivaji is not a Rajput but a Chandravanshi Yadava or a Gawli-Dhangar as is popularly known in Maharastra or a Golla in Karnataka. The author also dwells into the origin of the word Bhosale, which is believed to be Shivaji's second name. According to the author Bhosale is a verbal distortion of the word "Hoysala," which is a name of a dynasty that ruled Karnataka. Likewise the author also takes a clue from the deity Shivaji worshipped, "Shikara Shinganapura Shambhu Mahadeva." According to Dhere's findings, the deity is none other than "Shreeshaila Mallikarjuna," which also corroborates the fact that Shivaji is not a Rajput. To this effect Dhere provides sufficient historical and evidences from folklore.

The present day Clan system of Kshatriya, Suryavanshi, Chandravanshi Lineages, have Rajput Gotras showing that Rajputs and Dhangar are same. 

Jati Viveka fails to explain how Shepherds could be born to a Shudra, when they never were considered Shudra. Sheep rearing was never an occupation of Shudras. As per Manu Smrti, Shepherd /cowherd must be avoided at the sacrifices offered to Gods and Manes; hence it is a despised race. But why they should be avoided is not mentioned. However the same Manusmrti at states that a Kshatriya who has fallen into distress may subsist by any means necessary even by becoming a Shepherd/cowherd, which is self-contradictory. 

Dhangars was created by Lord Shiva and that they were never Shudras but are Kshatriyas is the widely accepted theory. It is impossible to go by Jativiveka and Manusmrti, as in reality Shepherds/Cowherds had Kings in throughout history. 

The author and the period when Manu Smrti was written is unknown. Jativiveka is unknown. Note that Sage Tapa who offered sacrifices to Gods and Manes himself was a Shepherd/cowherd. Lord Krishna who belonged to this caste is Kshatriya (Cowherd) . hard to go with Manusmruti

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