Sewari
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Sewari or Sewadi is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 located in the Bali
Bali, India
Bali is a city and a municipality in Pali district in the state of Rajasthan, India.The town is situated on the left bank of the Mithari river. This walled town was the headquarters of a district having the same name in the Jodhpur State. Bali is a tehsil and Panchayat Samiti with the same name...

 tehsil
Tehsil
A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

 of Pali district
Pali district
Pali District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Pali is the district headquarters.-History:...

 of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 state, amidst the Aravalli Range
Aravalli Range
The Aravalli Range literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northeast to southwest across states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh...

. There is also a dam nearby with the same name.

Demographics

The population of Sewari is 8,844 according to the 2001 census. Male population is 4,356 and female population is 4,488.

Temples

This is one of the largest villages in Bali tehsil. In this village there is a very old temple called Khetla Ji. There are many temples like Khetlaji
Khetlaji
Khetlaji is a folk deity of India who is primarily venerated in Rajasthan. His one of the shrine is located in village Sonana in Pali district of Rajasthan. The temple is the site of a two day fair, held every year during May-June in honor of Khetlaji. The fair attracts a large number of devotees...

, Mahadevji
Shiva
Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

, Ambe mataji, Laxmiji, Chamunda
Chamunda
Chamunda , also known as Chamundi, Chamundeshwari and Charchika, is a fearsome aspect of Devi, the Hindu Divine Mother and one of the seven Matrikas . She is also one of the chief Yoginis, a group of sixty-four or eighty-one Tantric goddesses, who are attendants of the warrior goddess Durga...

 Mataji, Hanuman
Hanuman
Hanuman , is a Hindu deity, who is an ardent devotee of Rama, a central character in the Indian epic Ramayana and one of the dearest devotees of lord Rama. A general among the vanaras, an ape-like race of forest-dwellers, Hanuman is an incarnation of the divine and a disciple of Lord Rama in the...

ji, and two Jain
Jainism
Jainism is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state...

 temples. There are various tribes living in the Aravalli Mountain Range.

Mahavir Temple, one of the earliest Bhumija temples, is situated at Sewari in the Pali district
Pali district
Pali District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Pali is the district headquarters.-History:...

 of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

. This 11th-century temple is an elegant brick-built structure. It is a Pancha Rathas
Pancha Rathas
Pancha Rathas - an example of monolith Indian rock-cut architecture dating from the late 7th century, located at Mamallapuram, a tiny village south of Madras in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.-History:...

 temple with five plasters.

There are many mandir
Hindu temple
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 of Brahman
Brahman
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 and Jani
Jani
Jāņi is a Latvian festival held in the night from 23 June to 24 June to celebrate the summer solstice , the shortest night and longest day of the year. The day of Līgo and the day of Jāņi are public holidays, and people usually spend them in the countryside...

 in Sewari. One new mandir is Shree Satyanarayan Ji, near Vardichand jijoshi"house, tample land is doneted by sukhlal ji joshi

There is also an Ayurvedic Manufacturing Unit named as LUNA PHARMA which has been for the last 6 years which is a GMP
Good Manufacturing Practice
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 certified from the government of Rajasthan.

History

Sewari's historical name was Sewanti Nagari. There were 100 Sou Bawari in Sewari. This is why this village is currently named Sewari. The village has been called Shri Wadi, Shatvatika, Shwet Pati, Seemapati, Siwwadi-Sewadi. the Jain temple of bhagwan Mahaveer has some Lekhs of Vikram Samvat 1167 and 1172 about its oldness. In vikaram Samvat 2014, the temple has been renovated and Shantinath
Shantinath
Shantinath was the sixteenth Jain Tirthankar of the present age . According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Shantinath was born to King Viswasen Raja and Queen Achira Rani at Hastinapur in the Ikshvaku clan...

 has been place inside and old statue of Bhagwan Mahveer is placed outside for the prosperity of the village as per one Jain Acharya.
There is also old temple name somnath mahadev mandir on lunava road opposite to vella-vagichi near BARLA VERA{ OLD BUS STAND}.

People enjoy many festival
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....

s every year. Sonana Khetlaji
Sonana Khetlaji
Shri Sonana Khetlaji is a temple of Shri Khetlaji located in the village Sonana of Desuri tehsil of Pali district in Indian state of Rajasthan...

Mela is one of the famous occasions celebrated during every year and great hospitality is served by the localities.
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