Jayal is a census town in the Nagaur district

Nagaur District

Nagaur District is one of the 33 districts of the state of Rajasthan in western India.Area of the district is 17,718 km2. The city of Nagaur is the district headquarters.- Geography :...

 of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 state. The village is located 40 km away from Nagaur

Nagaur

Nagaur is a city in the state of Rajasthan in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Nagaur District. The Nagaur city lies about midway between Jodhpur and Bikaner. It was founded by the Naga Kshatriyas.- History :...

. It is also the tehsil and block headquarters with the same name.

There is the oldest temple in the district called Dadhimati Temple, also known as Goth-Manglod temple. The temple was constructed during the Gupta Dynasty in 4th Century. Dadhimati is the Kul Devi of Dadhich Brahimins.

Geography

Jayal is located at 27.2167°N 74.1833°E. It has an average elevation of 296 metres (974 feet).

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Jayal had a population of 12,218. Males constitute 6,258 of the population and females 5,960.