Bahuguna
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Bahuguna is an India
n surname
common in Uttrakhand in northern India.
According to the family history, the land of Odali village was purchased by ancestors from a lady of Dungri Village. According to the book Bahuguna Vansh Charit (page 237) written by Dr. Ram Prasad Bahuguna, one of ancestor Shri Asha Ramji (who belonged to the 13th generation of Shri Achyuta Nandji) came from Village Bugani (Near Srinagar, Garhwal) to settle at Odali in 1870. This is also corroborated by a map of Odali Village prepared by Shri T. F. Freeman from Survey of India in 1892.
The legend says that the group of people came to the kingdom where the son of the king was suffering from some disease which no-one could handle. However, the head of the group, an astrologer and medical practitioner, managed to cure the king's son. The overjoyed king asked the group leader to stay back in his kingdom and gave him a village to settle. Also, for his amazing knowledge, the king gave him the title "Bahuguna" which actually means "Man of many virtues (qualities)". The group leader from then on worked with the king and his group settled in that village, which is now in the center of Garhwal region in Uttrakhand state in India.
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common in Uttrakhand in northern India.
According to the family history, the land of Odali village was purchased by ancestors from a lady of Dungri Village. According to the book Bahuguna Vansh Charit (page 237) written by Dr. Ram Prasad Bahuguna, one of ancestor Shri Asha Ramji (who belonged to the 13th generation of Shri Achyuta Nandji) came from Village Bugani (Near Srinagar, Garhwal) to settle at Odali in 1870. This is also corroborated by a map of Odali Village prepared by Shri T. F. Freeman from Survey of India in 1892.
The legend says that the group of people came to the kingdom where the son of the king was suffering from some disease which no-one could handle. However, the head of the group, an astrologer and medical practitioner, managed to cure the king's son. The overjoyed king asked the group leader to stay back in his kingdom and gave him a village to settle. Also, for his amazing knowledge, the king gave him the title "Bahuguna" which actually means "Man of many virtues (qualities)". The group leader from then on worked with the king and his group settled in that village, which is now in the center of Garhwal region in Uttrakhand state in India.