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Veer Teja or Tejaji (1074–1104) was legendary Rajasthani folk hero. He is considered one of the major eleven incarnations of Lord Shiva and worshipped as a deity in rural Rajasthan. Teja's legend is that of a young man, striving for respect and recognition, who is willing to sacrifice everything in order maintain tribal conceptions of honour. There are a number of different variations to the Teja legend as recounted by different bards and priests. However, there are five main elements to the legend that are included in most stories: * Teja's marriage in infancy with an infant girl from a neighbouring clan, a barter marriage, which involved his sister being given in marriage to his infant wife's cousin * Teja setting off an a perilous journey to fetch his wife from her parents home in response to a taunt by his sister-in-law (elder brother's wife) * Teja risking his life to protect the cows of a lower caste woman from bandits, this is a revolutionary aspect of the legend. * Teja bravely fulfilling a vow to a snake at the cost of his own life * Teja's wife and his sister being burned to death at his funeral pyre in the ritual of Sati As per anthropologists, Teja's cult is a non-Brahmanical cult that includes an element of protest against the caste system.〔Dhali, Rajshree Popular Religion in Rajasthan: A Study of Four Deities and Their Worship in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, 2014, p. 229〕 Even today a person from the Mali (gardener) caste is the chief priest of Teja's temple (rather than a Brahmin). ==Birth== Veer Teja is considered to be folk-deity and admired in entire Rajasthan by all communities. He was born on Friday, magha shukla 14 samvat 1130 (29 January 1074), in the family of Dhaulya gotra Nagavanshi Kshatriya Jats. His father was Chaudhary Tahar, a chieftain of Kharnal in Nagaur district in Rajasthan. His mother’s name was Sugna. Mother Sugna is believed to have got son Teja by the blessings of Nāga-deity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Veer Teja」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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