Agarwal Samaj Trust

Sonepat Agarwal Samaj, a place where 1.25 Laks Agarwal community people lives.

Sonepat (founded as Swarnaprastha) is a town and a Municipal Corporation in Haryana state of India. It comes under the National Capital Region and is around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Delhi. It is also around 214 km (128 miles) southwest of Chandigarh, the state capital. The Yamuna River runs along the eastern boundary.On 22 December 1972, Sonipat was carved out of Rohtak and made a full-fledged district.

Ancient History

Reference to the city comes in the epic Mahabharata, Sonepat was founded as Swarnaprastha by the five Pandava brothers. It was one of the five prasthas or towns demanded by Yudhisthira as the price of peace from Duryodhana and in lieu of the kingdom of Hastinapur. The other four villages were Panprastha (Panipat), Baghprastha (Baghpat), Tilprastha (Tilpat) and Indraprastha. Another legend ascribed it to Raja Soni, the thirteenth descendent of Arjuna, one of the Pandava brothers.

Though both are without supporting evidence but it had been noted much earlier by the grammarian Pāṇini in his celebrated Ashtadhyayi. The town was therefore already in existence around 600 B.C.

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District Sonepat comprises of 3 sub-divisions namely Ganaur, Sonepat and Gohana and seven blocks (Ganaur, Sonepat, Rai, Kharkhoda, Gohana, Kathura and Mundlana) has been carved out of Rohtak and made a full fledged district on 22 December 1972. Sonepat is the largest tehsil followed by Gohana.

Some Facts About Vaish Community

• 76 percent of the revenue that enters the government coffers from the private sector comes from the Vaish community.
• 84 percent charity work like building schools, hospitals, sarais, wells and dharamshalas is done with money  contributed by the Vaish community.
• 66 percent employment in the private sector is generated by the Vaish community.
• Do you know what percentage of the Indian population the Vaish community forms? Only 16 percent.

Etymology

According to legend, Sonipat was earlier known as Sonprastha, which later on became Swarnprastha, meaning the “Golden City”: derived from two Sanskrit words, “swarn” (gold) and “prastha” (place). Later, the name Swarnprastha changed into Swarnpath, and then to its current form, Sonipat/Sonepat.