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| Great Kurmi Kshatriya kings are the kings of India's history: | Great Kurmi Kshatriya kings are the kings of India's history: | ||
| 1)Magadhans | 1)] | ||
| 2)Kosalans | 2)] | ||
| 3)Sakyans | 3)] | ||
| 4)Mauryans | 4)] | ||
| 5)Guptas | 5)] | ||
| Note: Common last names of Kurmis are Singh, Sinha, Patel, Patil, Bhonsle, Reddy, Mohanta. | Note: Common last names of Kurmis are Singh, Sinha, Patel, Patil, Bhonsle, Reddy, Mohanta. | ||
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Kurmis are a caste of people who claimed themselves "Kurmi Kshatriyas", traditionally farmers, in Nepal and India. "Kurmi" in Sanskrit literally translates as "I can" or "I am able", or "within my power to act". In other words, those who are not Kurmi are not able,incompetent and without power to act. In modern India, Kurmis are officially classified as an Other Backward Class by the government of India.
Kurmis divide themselves into Suryavanshis and Chandravanshis with the Suryavanshis claiming to be from the same clan that the legendary King Rama of Ayodhya descended, the name of whose wife Sita literally means "furrow" or the line made by a plow. The Kurmis along with the Khatris, Yadavas, Kurubas, Uppaaras and Khanbis are often considered to form the original Aryan Vedic kshatriyas
Many of the ancient Vedic kshatriyas were later recorded as degraded kshatriyas or "shudra kings" by corrupt descendants of brahmin priests who resented the rise of Buddhism and the monetary support which Buddhist institutions received by the major warrior tribes descended from the Aryans at the time. Evidence of preistly subversive activity can be drawn from the Agni Purana from which the neo-Kshatriyas, the Rajputs, claim their descent from the fire pits at Mt. Abu in western India with the arrogant claim that all previous kshatriyas were destroyed, with the Rajputs being the new kshatriyas.
The link between kshatriyas and agriculture has been justified on the grounds of linguistic affinities between the root *ar- ("bravery, heroism", found in English and Greek hero, Russian geroj, and Sanskrit ārya) and other words for cultivators, i.e. those who labour nobly (Russian oratel' or ploughman, Airga in the Zend-Avesta); as well as in the legend of King Prithu, who tamed the earth to make the earth fertile again. It is for this reason that the Sanskrit word for "earth" is "Prithvi", in honor of the Aryan King Prithu who first cultivated the earth.
Great Kurmi Kshatriya kings are the kings of India's history:
1)Magadhans 2)Kosalans 3)Sakyans 4)Mauryans 5)Guptas
Note: Common last names of Kurmis are Singh, Sinha, Patel, Patil, Bhonsle, Reddy, Mohanta.
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