Sunari SUNARI(सुनारी) |
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Village | |
Nickname(s): सबस्युं प्यारौ सबस्युं न्यारौ म्हारॊ मरुधरदैस | |
Location in Rajasthan, India | |
Coordinates: 27°38′12.60″N 74°19′57.88″E / 27.6368333°N 74.3327444°ECoordinates: 27°38′12.60″N 74°19′57.88″E / 27.6368333°N 74.3327444°E | |
Country | India |
State | Rajasthan |
District | Nagaur |
Government | |
• Sarpanch | Bhanwar Lal Birda |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 4,844 |
Languages | |
• Official | Hindi |
Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
PIN | 341306 |
Telephone code | 01581-0222006 |
Vehicle registration | RJ-21 |
Sunari (गॉव सुनारी) is a village in Ladnun tehsil (I sector), Nagaur district, Rajasthan, north west India. Its lok sabha (lower house region of governance) is Churu constituency. The residents, numbering between five and six thousand, are Hindu. Sunari lies on the edge of the Thar (Great Indian) desert.
Sunari village is located in north west India, in Rajasthan state on the edge of the Thar (great Indian) desert. The nearest service centres are Ladnun, 12 km to the east and Sujangarh 20 km to the north east. The nearest cities are Jaipur, 100 km to the south and Nagaur 82 km away on the Ladnun road. Sariska National Park is located in the distant mountains to the east.
Marwar region (Maru mandal, Marudhara, Maruwad, Maru Desh or Marwad) was once a sea called Drumkulya. When the Lord Rama fired a flaming arrow into the ground, a large part of the sea became a desert.
Sunari village was founded by the Birda clan of the Jat community in the 13th century. Four brothers from nearby Bainatha village insulted the son of Thakur who misbehaved with the sister of the Birda boys and cut off the water used to keep their cattle. The Birda family left Bainatha village in search of a new home.
When they came to the Marwar region, they saw a soun chidi, a long-tailed shrike in a Khejri tree on left side of the path. Tradition held that on seeing a shrike, on the left, the journey should stop. So, they made camp there for the night. At dawn, one of the brothers saw a sheep in the ker struggling to protect her new born lamb from a pack of three jackals. The family was so moved by the struggle of the sheep that they decided make that place their new settlement. Initially, the settlement was called Sugnawali after the soun chidi. Gradually, Sugnawali became Sunari.