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Gotras of Agrawals. Agrasena performed seventeen Yagyas and the eighteenth remained incomplete due to his objection to the animal sacrifice. On every Yagya he named a gotra. Likewise he named eighteen gotras: (1) Garga (2) Goel (3) Goyan (4) Airan (5) Dharan (6) Madhukul (7) Bansal (8) Kansal (9) Singhal (10) Bindal (11) Mittal (12) Tayal (13) Mangal (14) Jindal (15) Tingal (16) Bhandal (17) Nangal, and (18) Kuchhal. The residents of Agroha were' thus divided...