Oswal
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oswal-169-3923181
title:
Oswal
text:
The Oswal are a Śvetāmbara Jain-majority Baniya community with origins in Osian, a town in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India. They claim to be of Rajput descent. The Osavālas origin legend has multiple aspects, all of which include a fierce, meat-eating goddess who becomes pacified by a Jain ascetic, involving the conversion of a king to Jainism. In modern times, there are barely any Osavālas living in Osiyān, but they still regard the Mahavira temple and Sachiya Mata Temple as their "mother
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Surname list
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswal
date created:
2006-01-29T20:22:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T13:13:12Z
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