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Bagra (or Bagda) Brahmins are said to be originated from 52 Rishis (sages) who were requested by Raja Anangpal Tomar for Tomar dynasty from Kashi. These rishis were brahmins who were descendants of Rishi Bharadvaja.

Legend

Anangpal Tomar who was the last king of the Tomar dynasty (Rajput caste), was crowned in Vikram Samvat 1169 in Delhi, the capital of India. He wanted to rule the Delhi for a long time, but he had dreams otherwise. The king told about his dreams to his chief priest Jagdish Rishi and asked a solution for his kingdom to be stable. On this Jagdish Rishi told to call Bagava Rishi of Kashi, and his 51 disciples and keep them in his kingdom. The king asked his special diwan to ask Bagav Rishi along with his family and 51 disciples to come to Delhi and inquire about the way to keep the kingdom of King Anangpal stable. The special Diwan of the king reached Kashi, met Bagav Rishi and told him everything and prayed him to visit Delhi.

Bagava sage said that there will be a 21-day Akhand Yagya, in which the 21 angul (angul is unit of measurement) nail (literal word used is ‘Keel’ which is representative of an iron nail) made of metal will be struck in the earth. The king's kingdom will remain immovable until the nail remains in the Earth.

On the invitation and prayer of King Anangpal, Bagava Rishi, along with his family and 51 disciples, left for Delhi on month of Margashirsh, day, Shukla Doj, Thursday Vikram Samvat 1199 and reached Delhi after two months and seven days. Raja Anangpal and Jagdish Rishi welcomed him outside the limits of Delhi city. Reaching Delhi, Bagava Rishi and his 51 disciples started Yagya on Vaishakh Shukla Trayodashi, Thursday, Vikram Samvat 1200 and on the day of Jyeshtha Shukla three, finished the full vagya (final aahuti) on Wednesday and struck the 21 angul long nail made of Sarvadhatu at the place of Yagya.

The Bagava sage told the king that, “O king, this nail has gone into the head of Vasuki Nag. Don't ever remove it. As long as this nail remains, your kingdom will also remain intact”. Then King Anangpal made Bagava Rishi and his disciples the second guru of his dynasty and gave 52 villages to Guru Dakshina. On the day Ashadh Krishna, Navami, Tuesday in Vikram Sambat 1200, Bagava Rishi and his 51 disciples reached the area called 'Bagore' which had those 52 villages and made it their abode. After this, he thought that taking and giving donations was one of the six acts of Brahmins, but the priests who took donations from them are now left behind in Kashi. At that time, a Brahmabhat named Chokhchand lived in the Bagaur area. His rule was Katwalia sub-administrative Kataria Gautra Bharadwaj, who made him his total priest and donated lakhs of pasav.

On the other hand, Takshak Nag, the son of Vasuki Nag, decided to uproot the nail that had gone into the head of VasukiNag. Takshak Nag, taking the form of a Brahmin, reached Delhi to King Anangpal. The king bowed down to Takshak Nag in the form of a Brahmin. Takshak Nag blessed the king and stretched his white sheet and sat on it and asked the reason for the nail being hammered on the earth. The king told that a 21-day Akhand Yagya was performed here, so this nail has been driven into the head of Vasuki Nag to ensure his kingdom remains stable forever. As long as this nail remains, our kingdom will remain.

On this, Takshak Nag, disguised as Brahmin, said, “King, you are madman; how can this 21 finger nail be in the head of Vasuki Nag. When wells and stepwells are dug deeper than this, the Vasuki snake is not visible. And if what you say is true, then this nail should be pulled out, and it has blood drops on its tip, then it is a truth, otherwise a lie”. King thought the Brahmin’s talk made sense given the logic he presented. The king got the nail uprooted, and 3 drops of blood fell from the Nail. Seeing this, the Brahmin form Takshak Nag disappeared as well.

Then the king put the nail back and repented heavily. He called his guru Bagav Rishi again and narrated the whole story. The sage said that now your kingdom cannot remain. 'कील जो ढीली हुई, तँवर हुआ मतिहीन' 'The nail that has become loose, the king has lost his mind”.

When King fell at the feet of the sage, the sage said, “O king! Now, by repenting, nothing can be done. Actions have been done already”. Now I cannot guarantee big kingdom, but since you had given us 52 villages as Guru Daksina, I cannot guarantee a wider you can continue rule us as your people. Then the king asked, “What will be the identity of your dynasty?” On this, the Bagava Rishi said that from today onwards the name of our dynasty will be 'Bagda Brahmin' and we will neither become anyone's guru nor make anyone a disciple. The Guru, his disciples and their families became what is commonly known as Bagda Brahmin community and have been residing in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh fertile lands.

The King had requested Bagav rishi to re-insert the nail in the ground again to salvage the kingdom. The rishi obliged but this time the instead of 21 anguls, only 19 anguls went inside the earth and nail was loose. There is a common folklore around Delhi on this wherein story about “Nail being loose” in Delhi as power centre refers to constant power struggle or unstable regimes. The Rishi also requested king Anangpal to bring his daugther’s son, Prithviraj Chauhan, to the capital and install him as the king. Then King Anangpal summoned Prithviraj from Ajmer and crowned him in Vaishakh Shukla Chaturdashi Vikram Samvat 1201. He also requested the king to retire to a village named Patan, where the first guru came from.