Elevation 467 m ISO 3166 code ISO 3166-2:IN | Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) Population 3,700 (2001) | |
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Founded by Mr. Mota ji,Mr. Jugul Kishor purohit Weather 23°C, Wind S at 0 km/h, 53% Humidity | ||
Motras(मोटरास) is a village and gram panchayat in Bhilwara district in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located in the Aravalli hills, on the banks of the Khari River in Bhilwara District, 70 km north-east of Bhilwara. This village is famous for its temple of Pabu ji Maharaj. The village has a Post office, community building, sahakari bank, School and many administrative hub for many major villages. Some of major villages are Gandhi Nagar, Hatundi, Akshygarh, Hamirgarh, Dedla, Modi mangri, sawigarh, jwanpura, Blhad ka padav, Dulha ji ka badhiya. Legislator of constituency has recently adopted the village under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana ( SAGY) to lift up the standard of physical and social life of people.
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History
Motras has a quaint story of origin, carefully preserved by the locals. It said It was founded 600 year ago mid 14th century by three person Mr. Mota ji. He was Gujar (chuwan). Mr. Jugul Kishor purohit. He was Brahman (shikwal) and third person dholi samaj. Supposedly these were the first settler families. Mr. Mota ji was the oldest person. And he was also called judjmaan in local language. So this village named Motras.
It has a population of about 3500 persons living in around 587 households according to 2001. It has many different cast people lives. It has Gurjars, Brahmans, Rajputs, Dholis, jains, kumhars, Nayak, Dhobis, Bhils, Balais and some ragars, chamars, harijans.
Geography
Motras is located at 25.73°N 74.33°E / 25.73; 74.33 It has an average elevation of 467 metres (1532 feet). Motras is one of the villages in Asind Mandal in Bhilwara District in Rajasthan State. Motras is located 18.8 km from its Mandal Main Town Asind. Motras is 70 km from its District Main City Bhilwara and 39 km from Beawar. It is 181 km from its State Main City Jaipur. Nearby villages are Sangramgarh (2.6 km), Akarsada (4.3 km), Patan (4.5 km), Rampura (5.2 km), Ojiyana (6.1 km).
Transport
Motras has poor road connectivity and still lacks public transport. However some of private buses and autos, etc. ply to connect the village and nearby towns like Asind, Ojiyana, Antali, and Ramgarh. Similarly one bus connects Beawar and Bhilwara regularly (one in the morning and one in the evening, arriving at 7 am and 7 pm respectively ) is the only fair and scheduled way of transport.
Achievement
Village Motras has done well in Gov't of India's SWACHH Bharat Mission - GRAMIN. The Gram Panchayat of Motras is the first "declared and verified" open defecation-free village in the entire Bhilwara district, thus all the sleuths of administration of district has visited the village thrice and commenced a vigilance session to create awareness about hygiene and sanitation among villagers. In these sessions villagers were taught about different types of waste products and their method of disposal. Sleuths exhorted to villagers to keep this similar momentum for further several rural sanitaion programme and thanked villagers for taking participation in this expedition.
Pilgrim place
Motras is Famous for Pabu ji Mahraj temple. Pabuji is a folk-deity of Rajasthan in India. He lived in the 14th century in Rajasthan. He was one of four children of Dhadal Rathore of village Kolu, two boys (Buro and Pabuji) and two girls (Sona and Pema). The historical Pabuji was a mediaeval Rajput prince; he is now widely worshipped as a deity by Rabari herdsmen and others throughout the Rajasthan countryside; and he is served by Nayak priests.
Pabuji lived in the remote desert village of Kolu, and in that village are to be found the only well-known conventional temples to him—two small temples within a single compound, where puja (worship) is offered to the deity. Small shrines, commemorative stones etc. abound, but, outside Kolu itself, the absence of actual temples is conspicuous. There are two reasons for it: first, Pabuji has yet to achieve sufficient prestige as a god to warrant the construction of pieces of architecture; and, second, many of his worshippers—in particular, many Rabaris—are semi-nomadic, and are thus not in a position regularly to visit a temple in a fixed spot.
Bhopa community in Rajasthan are considered to be priest singers of Pabuji. They depict the story of Pabuji on canvas and recite it to the public through religious songs. This painted canvas is called Phad. The Phad is a 30-foot-long sheet on which are painted (or sewn) miniature scenes depicting the life of Pabuji on which his adventures are narrated.
The major temples are:
The Pabu ji temple is famous for its miracles and has a fair which is celebrated by the whole village.