Dhankar
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Dhankar may refer to:
- Dhankar GompaDhankar GompaDhankar Gompa is a Gompa, a Buddhist temple in the district of Lahaul and Spiti in India. It is situated at an elevation of 3,894 metres in the Spiti Valley between the towns of Kaza and Tabo...
, a monastery in SpitiSpiti-Geographical locations:*Lahaul and Spiti, a district in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India.*Spiti Valley, former heartland of the former Spiti district now combined.*Spiti River, in the Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh.*Spitia River-Language:...
, India - DhankharDhankhar- History :They have descended from branch of Dharan or Dhoriwal . This gotra started after Dhana-khanda province of Maharaja Moradhwaja . They have originated from Raja Dhananjaya of Nagavansh...
, a gotraGotraIn the Hindu society, the term Gotra broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor. Panini defines gotra for grammatical purposes as apatyam pautraprabhrti gotram , which means "the word gotra denotes the progeny beginning with the son's son"...
(lineage/clan) of Jat peopleJat peopleThe Jat people are a community of traditionally non-elite tillers and herders in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory,...
in India