Agastwar

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Agastwar

This is an extract from THE TRIBES AND CASTES OF THE NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES AND OUDH. BY W. CROOKE, B.A., BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE. -<>- CALCUTTA: OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, INDIA. 1896.

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A sect of Rajputs found principally in Pargana Haveli of Benares. They claim to take their name from the Rishi Aguatya,who appears to have been one of the early Brthman mission- aries to the country south of the Vindhya range, which he is said to have ordered to prostrate themselves before him.