Humad Jain Vaishya - हुमद जैन वैश्य

Humad (or Humbad) is the name of an ancient Jain community originally from Rajasthan, India. Their traditional center is Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, Dungarpur and Sagwada region, often called Vagad (or Raidesh), in Rajasthan. They mainly follow the Digambar Jain tradition.

They are divided into 18 gotras.

They are mainly found in MP, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

In Maharashtra, they are said to have arrived during establishment of the Maratha rule in Surat. The famous industrial house Walchand Hirachand belongs to this community.

According to a legend, the Kshatriays of Lad (Gujarat-Rajasthan border region) were initiated by a Jain monk Hemchandra (not to confused with Hemachandra Suri of Patan).

Khedbrahma, where an ancient step-well (bawadi) exists, is sometimes regarded to be the original center of the Humads. According to a legend, each statue in the step-well is associated one Humad clan.

One branch of visa humad is sojitra sambha visa mevada digmber jain. They migrated from Bhatevar Rajsthan to Sojitra district Anand at time of Muslims attack on Mevad. They spread in 64 villages of Charotar, Vakal and Kanam areas in Gujarat. Main centre of Panch at Sojitra. There are 4 temples at Sojitra; 1.SHRI NEMINATHJI[MAIN] 2.SHRI SHANTINATHJI 3.SHRI CHINTAMANIPARSWAPRABHU 4.SHRI PARSWANATHJI AND SHRI SASANDEVIMATAJI [KULDEVI OF VISA MEVADA]. Visa Mevada Samaj Gotras are Paras, Gangotri, Varchhs, Parasar, Padmavati, Nandi, Nandisar, Hansh, Atre, Nageshwar, Vashisht, Kashyap, Gautam, Bhadreshwar, Kamleshwar, Ambica, Bharatdwaj, Kankubol, Nagendra, Khiraju, Parijat, Bootmata, Kasliwal.

Other humad in Gujarat: 42 dasha humad muni, 42 dasha humad mumukshu, surat dasha humad, surat visa humad, dahod dasha humad, bhavnagar dasha humad, idar humad, vijaynagar humad, santram pur humad, ray desh dsha humad.

Prominent Humads

Bhattaraka Sakalakirti: He was born in 1386 at Anahilavada. He became a disciple of Bhattaraka Padmanandi of Balatkara Ganaand later founded the Bhattaraka seat and lineage of Idar. He wrote 28 texts in Sanskrit and 8 in Rajasthani Hindi. 

Bhattaraka Ratnakirti: He was born at Ghogha and served as the Bhattaraka at Bardoli during Sam 1630-1656. He wrote 44 texts, most of them lyrical compositions. His disciple was Bhattarka Kumudachandra born in a Modh family.