Vasa is a village in

Sirohi District Sirohi District is a district of Rajasthan state in western India. The city of Sirohi is the district headquarters. As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Rajasthan (out of 33), after Jaisalmer and Pratapgarh. History In 1948 ...

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state in

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. It is 9 km from Swarupganj and 25 km from

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and also known as Vasantpur or Vasantgarh. Vasa also has got a temple Laxminarayan Mandir whose foundation stone was laid by Mirabai.

History

Vasa fell within a Princely Village before Indian Independence in 1947, and was ruled by the Parmar Rajput dynasty (one of the major

Rajput Rajput (from Sanskrit ''raja-putra'' 'son of a king') is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term Ra ...

clan of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh) under British dominion. Vasa was established by Sher Singh Parmar in the twelfth century. The last ruler was Thakur Sardar Singh (1927). The royal family of Parmar worship Sun or Surya Narayan Dev as their ''

kuldevta A kuladevatā (), also known as a kuladaivaṃ, is an ancestral tutelary deity in Hinduism and Jainism. Such a deity is often the object of one's devotion ('' bhakti''), and is coaxed to watch over one's clan (''kula''), gotra, family, and ch ...

'', whose temple is also there in the village.

Geography

Vasa Mere than a mile to the north-east of Rohera is the village of Rajasthan, on the outskirt of which is a fine temple of Surya (the sun god) of the eleventh or twelfth century. The village itself has various temples. Vasa is famous for its

sun temple A sun temple (or solar temple) is a building used for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, dedicated to the sun or a solar deity. Such temples were built by a number different cultures and are distributed around the ...

, Jambeshwar Mahadev temple, ''vav'' ( Stepwell of Vasa ), Jamdgani Rushi Ashram and many other old temples. The sun temple is also called Surya Narayana mandir and was built in the twelfth century, as was the ''vav''(

stepwell Stepwells (also known as vavs or baori) are wells or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level. Stepwells played a significant role in defining subterranean architecture in western India from 7th to 19th century. So ...

).Temples of Rajasthan by Ramavallabh Somani page 442

References

* (1) Rajasthan istrict Gazetteers: Sirohi published and Printed at Government of India Central Press, 1967, refer page 12,202 and 441 * (2) Book : Identity, Gender, and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan : By Maya Unnithan-Kumar * (3) Temples of Rajasthan, by Ramavallab Soman

* (4) Sun Temple in vas

* (5) Created by Mr Parth Ketan Ojha , vasa Currently in Jaipur.

External links

Vasa
at Gorwal.com
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