Some centuries back, a tribal Princess called Kunwari Jasma Odeni, arrived in the city of Dhar from the ancient land of Khandesh (present district of Dhule in Maharashtra) accompanied by her team of Ode community. The Odes were famous for excavating water tanks in charity for the poor, needy and the marginalized peoples in those days of history. Seeing the pathetic conditions of the tribal and other peoples in the state of Dhar Jasma Odan excavated a water tank geneously which is being deepened these days by good civil administration in collaboration with the civilians of the town of Dhar today with the kind permission of King Bhoj.
The oral tradition of the Bhils say, that later the king of Dhar was infatuated by her rare beauty and expressed his desire to marry her. The beauty of Jasma is well narrated poetically in the folksongs of Bhil of women and Bhil legends. Noticing the infatuation of the king , Jasma quietly disappeared from the city of Dhar after completing her charitable job.
Jasma arrived to the anceient town of Bhagor, a capital of Bhago Bhil in the pre historic times. She made another gesture of charity by excavating the water tank of Bhagor and then later Jasma Odan marched towards west in the land of Gujarat, where she excavated for the deprived tribals the water tank of Dahod, called Sabyan nun Talav (water tank of Sabyan) also narrated in the oral tradition of the Bhils.
Today we need the persons like Kunvari Jasma Odan and Mama Baleshwar Dayal both of them are historically remembered and honored by being deified in the Bhilanchal, but the present politicians and the NGOs are being condemned by the Bhils for their vast areas of corruptions.
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