Vijayvargia/Vijayvargiya/Vijayvergiya' (Hindi विजयवर्गीय) is a merchant (Vaishya

Vaishya

Vaishya is one of the four varnas of the Hindu social order. According to Vedic tradition, this caste primarily comprises merchants, farmers, cattle-herders and artisans.-Duties of Vaishyas:...

-Baniya) community mainly from 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...

 and Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

.

According to tradition, it originated from the historical Khandela

Khandela

Khandela is a city and municipality located within the Sikar district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is known to be the place where the Rajputs converted into a Banya clan by name of Maheshwari...

 town in northern 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...

. Maheshwari

Maheshwari

Maheshwari are a business community of Vaishnava, originating from Khandela, Rajasthan in western India. They are a sub-group within the Marwaris community. The community is found throughout North India.- History & Origin :...

s and Khandelwal

Khandelwal

Khandelwal is the name of three separate communities* Khandelwal Jain, a major Jain community, also known as Sarawagi .* Khandelwal Brahmin, a Brahmin community* Khandelwal Vaishya, a Vaishnav vaish trading community...

 communities also trace their origin to Khandela.

They mainly live in 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...

 ( in Tonk, Bharatpur, Jaipur, Ajmer, Bhilwara, Chittaurgarh, Udaipur, Kota and Bikaner districts) and western Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

 ( in Nimach, Mandsour, Ratlam, Indore, Guna, Bhopal districts) . They are also located at Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...

, Surat

Surat

Surat , also known as Suryapur, is the commercial capital city of the Indian state of Gujarat. Surat is India's Eighth most populous city and Ninth-most populous urban agglomeration. It is also administrative capital of Surat district and one of the fastest growing cities in India. The city proper...

, Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

, Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

, Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, Nagpur

Nagpur

Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

 and Ranchi

Ranchi

-Climate:Ranchi has a humid subtropical climate. However, due to its position and the forests around the city, it is known for its pleasant climate. Its climate is the primary reason why Ranchi was once the summer capital of the undivided State of Bihar...

. They are mainly Vaishanava(Vaishya). The Rama Snehi sect was founded by Swami Ram Charan (1718–1798) at Shahpura, Bhilwara by establishing Ramdwara was born in this community.

Origin of Vijayvargia

Dhanpal Vaishya was the Prime Minister of the King of Khandela

Khandela

Khandela is a city and municipality located within the Sikar district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is known to be the place where the Rajputs converted into a Banya clan by name of Maheshwari...

 Janapada

Janapadas

The Janapadas were the major realms or kingdoms of Vedic India which, by the 6th century BC, evolved into the sixteen classical Mahajanapadas.-Etymology:...

 (Sikar

Sikar

Sikar is a city located in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan state in India. It is the administrative headquarter of Sikar District. Sikar is a historical city and contains many old Havelis which are a huge tourist attraction. The best way to reach the city is to use road transport from Jaipur...

). His four offspring established four castes: Saravagi

Sarawagi

The Sarawagi or Saraogi Jain community, meaning a Jain Śrāvaka, is also known as the Khandelwali. They originated from Khandela, a historical town in northern Rajasthan....

 was established by Sunda, Khandelwal by Khanda, Maheshwari

Maheshwari

Maheshwari are a business community of Vaishnava, originating from Khandela, Rajasthan in western India. They are a sub-group within the Marwaris community. The community is found throughout North India.- History & Origin :...

 by Mahesha, and Vijayvargiya by Vija. All these four castes claim their origin to be Khandela Janapada, but any other evidence does not confirm the theory of four sons. Some of the Khandela scholars accept their origin from the two brothers – Khanda and Vija. Both these castes have 72 gotra

Gotra

In 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"...

s (branches) each, out of which 13 gotras of both the castes have similarity among them. It is on record that in 363 AD, Kunwar Jayant Singh developed some differences with his father, the ruler of Khandela Janapada. Consequently, Kunwar Jayant Singh was ordered to be exiled by the ruler. Vija son of the Prime Minister of the king, along with his 71 supporters followed Kunwar Jayant Singh; they made their first halt at Jakheri. There, they made a plan and invaded the Kingdom of Ranthambhaur and succeeded in annexing the kingdom. Greatly impressed by the devotion and valor of his followers, Kunwar Jayant Singh named the entire group as Vijayvargia. These 72 men altogether, became the forerunners of the 72 clans. In the year 1906–07, Pithashah organized a huge conglomeration of the entire gotras of this caste at Pipalu village of Tonk

Tonk, India

Tonk is a town in Rajasthan state, India. The town of Tonk is situated by road south from Jaipur, near the right bank of the Banas River. It is the administrative headquarters of Tonk District. Tonk was also the capital of the eponymous princely state of British India from 1817 to...

 (Rajasthan). Foundation of 16 temples was laid down consequent to this meeting. Greatly impressed by the initiative taken by Pithashah, the prominent personalities attending the conglomeration conferred the title of Chaudhary

Chaudhary

Choudhury is a term in Indo-Aryan languages, literally meaning "holder of four". Traditionally, the term is used as a title indicating the ownership of ancestral land, but in contemporary usage it is often taken as a surname or title....

 on Pithasha. Specialists called ‘Raos’ were given the responsibility of maintaining the history and record of their caste and gotras. The main gotras of Vijayvargias’ are: Jhojhota, Khunteta, Chaudhary, Patodiya, Kapadi, Parva, Nayakwal, etc. Vijayvergias’ are basically Vaishnava, but there are isolated examples of them being Shaivas also. In the field of spiritualism also Vijayvargias’ are known to have been blessed by the ‘Ramsnehi Sect’; Swami Shri Ramacharan ji Maharaj was its founder. Archaeological writings bear the witness that Meerabai

Meera

Meerabai was an aristocratic Hindu mystical singer and devotee of Lord Krishna from Rajasthan and one of the most significant figures of the Sant tradition of the Vaishnava bhakti movement...

, the keen devotee of Lord Krishna, hailed from Vijayvergia caste. Under the patronage and motivation of Shri Ramcharan Ji Maharaj, Vijayvargias’ have played a stellar role in the building of social structure and performed various memorable deeds in the religious field as well. The famous temple of ‘Girdhar Gopal’ at Pushkar (Ajmer), which has made Meerabai an immortal, is a gift from this caste.

Gotras of Vijayvargiya

Gotra	Kuldevi	Rishi	Veda	Shakha	Sutrakar	Ganpati	Sati Location
ADHEDIYA	Chamunda	Bhardwaj	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vinayak
AJLODIYA	Ashapura Ashapura Mata Ashapura Mata is one of aspect devi. Her temples are mainly found in Gujarat.In Rajasthan, her temples are in Modran and Nadol.She is considered as kuldevi of Jadeja...	Vashishta	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vighnayak
AJMERA	Padhav	Bhardwaj	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vinayak
AJMERA SIGI	Ashapura	Vashishta	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vighnayak
BADHADARA	Jinn	Vashishta	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vighnayak
BAHARADIYA	Chamunda	Kashyap	Samveda	Kauthumi	Gobhi l	Heramb
BANDHIWAL	Chamunda	Kashyap	Samveda	Kauthumi	Gobhil	Heramb
BANDIWAL	Ambey	Gautama	Samveda	Kauthumi	Gobhil	Heramb
BANSIWAL	Eshwari	Vashishta	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vighnayak
BANTHLIWAL	Ambey	Gautama	Samveda	Kauthumi	Gobhil	Shivsoot
BATHRA	Ashapura	Shandilya	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Ganraj
BAUDADA	Dhundeswar	Kavyesh	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vinayak
BENKATA (or VAINKTA)	Ambey	Gautama	Samveda	Kauthumi	Gobhil	Shivsoot
BHARADLIYA	Dhundsri	Krutu	Samveda	Kauthumi	Gobhil	Vighnayak
BHIYANYA	Kundesari	Bhardwaj	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vinayak
BOHARA (or VOHRA)	Ambika	Gautama	Samveda	Kauthumi	Gobhil	Shivsoot
BORA (or VORA)
CHOUDHARY
DANS
DOSIWAL
DUSAJ
GADH (or GADDHI)
GAJNIWAL
GARAU
GHARASWAL
GHIYA
GOTHADIWAL
GWALERIYA
HINGWA
JHOJHOTA (or JAJODIA)	Chamunda	Bhardwaj	Yajurveda	Madhyandini	Katyayan	Vinayak
KAPDI
KATARIYA
KHANDARIYA
KHANDAYA
KHANDLA-SINGI
KHENTODAYA
KHOHWAL
KHUNTETA
KODAI
LUHARIYA
MALI
MANIHAR	Kiyay, Chavanda	Kashyap	Kauthumi	Gobhil	Heramb	Swaroopa Bai Sati-Bhalta (Jhalawar-Raj)
MAROTIYA
MUVANIYA
NAIWAL
NARANIWAL
NAREDIWAL
NATYA
NAYAKWAL
NIJRANYA/NIJHASYA
PANCHALYA
PANCHALUHADIYA
PANCHOLI
PARDA
PARWA
PATNIWAL
PATODIYA
PHAGIWAL
POLIWAL
RAJORIA	Chmunda devi
SAGARIYA
SAKHUNYA
SENDHANI
SINGWAN
SINGHI
SOHELIYA
SURLYA
TAMOLI
TOKARWASA	village: MARMI, CHITTORGARH (district), RAJASTHAN, INDIA.
UNCHI	Jinn Mata
VAHATARA
VARDA

Original name

As per Shakti Peeth edition of Kalyan, it appears that the original name of the caste was Beeja, originated from the term Beej, a martial community of soldiers that helped the Prithviraj Chouhan to win the Bundelkhand region. After this win Prithviraj left back the part under these Beej leaders. These Beej established a Temple of Beejasn Deity, which is now a recognised Shaktipeeth. However, after the defeat of Prithviraj Chohan, the Bundels regained their state and the Beej Leaders had to fled from there as traders in small groups toward MP and Rajasthan and settled different states. We can see Vijayvergiyas holding important post of Diwans, Kamdars, Royal Gandhis in Mewar, Jaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur and Jagirdars of these states, the Beejawats and Gandhis are well known terms for the caste in ... Ajmer, Japurm, Kota, Bikaner, and Jodhpur. The term Vijayvergiya appears newly formed in the 20th century only, according to C. S. Vijay.