Description
Monas, Maunas.—A sept of Rajputs found almost exclusively in the Benares Division. According to their own account they take their name from their eponymous ancestor Mannas or Monas Rishi Their original home is said to have been Amber or Jaypur, and the legend goes that a party of them, coming to bathe at Benares, envied the fertile plain, which is now the Bhadohi Pargana of the Mirzapw District, and conquered it from the Bhars, from whom it took its name. Mughal Library