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| '''Porwad''' (also known as '''Porwal''') are mainly [[Jain]] or [[Hindu]] community that originated in southern [[Rajasthan]], India. Ancient inscriptions written in [[Sanskrit]] refer to the community as ''Pragvata''.
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| They originated from a region east of ancient [[Shrimal]].<ref name="Bhanu2004">{{cite book|author=Anthropological Survey of India|editor=K. S. Singh|title=People of India: Maharashtra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bfmnmsBfQ4C&pg=PA1738|year=2004|publisher=Popular Prakashan|location=Mumbai, India|isbn=978-81-7991-102-0|page=1738}}</ref> numerically they rank behind the [ and [[Shrimal Jain|Shrimal]] Jains from the same region. However, in antiquity, they appear to have been more numerous and among the wealthiest.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
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| Many Jain temples were built by the Porwals, including:
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| * [[Ranakpur]] Jain temple of Dharna Shah, completed in 1441 CE <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herenow4u.net/index.php?id=57396 |title=Dharna Shah and Construction of the Temple |publisher=Herenow4u.net |date= |accessdate=2012-04-22}}</ref>
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| * [[Dilwara Temples|Luna Vasahi]] (1231 CE) of Vastupal and Tejpal at Mount Abu
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| * The Adinath temple at [[Shatrunjaya]] by [[Javad Shah]] in 961 AD, which was subsequently renovated several times.
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| The Porwad community became divided into several regional communities including the Sorathia (in Saurashtra), the [[Kapol]], the Jangad Porwad, and the Porwad found in the [[Nimad]] region of [[Madhya Pradesh]]. Some of the groups became a part of the Oswal or [[Navnat]] communities.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
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| Both Jain traditions, [[Svetambara]] and [[Digambar]], are represented among different sections of the Porwad community. The historian H. L. Jain has suggested that [[Krisha]], the patron of Muni Srichandra, a Digambara monk, belonged to the same Ninanvaya clan as Vimala who built the Vimala Vasahi temple at Abu.<ref name="Muni Srichandra's Kahakosu 1969">Muni Srichandra's Kahakosu, Prakrit Text Society, 1969, H.L. Jain editor</ref> Thus the one branch of the family followed Swetamabra tradition, while other followed Digambara tradition. This suggests the harmonious coexistence to the two Jain traditions in that region.
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| In the 16th century, Pushti Marga was founded by Vallabha, a Brahmin scholar from Telangana, who proposed that in the modern age, it is too hard to follow the Jnana & Karma Margs. He proposed Pushti Marga (Raag, Bhog and Shringar used in the seva of Shri Krishna) as an alternative. A section of the Porwads has converted to Pushtimarga. Those who have converted to the Pushtimarg are known as Meshri (derived from Maheshwari)<ref>The Eighteenth-Century Social Order in Surat: A Reply and an Excursus on the Riots of 1788 and 1795, by Lakshmi Subramanian, Modern Asian Studies, 1991, p. 321-365</ref> or Vania.
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| ==Gotras==
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| {{Main|Porwal gotras}}
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| There are many gotras in Porwal.
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Mumbai]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{coord missing|Rajasthan}}
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| [[Category:Indian Jains]]
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| [[Category:Indian Hindus]]
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