Mohnot / Munot (also written Munoth, Mohnot, etc.) is not a Jain “caste” by itself, but a gotra / family-surname inside the Oswal Jain community.

In simple terms:

1. Community ancestry (bigger picture)

- Most people with surnames like Mohnot / Munot who are Jains belong to the Oswal (Osval) Jain community. - Oswals are a Jain merchant community whose traditional origin is from Osian (Osiyan) town in Marwar, Rajasthan. - According to Jain tradition, many Rajput families of that region accepted Jain Dharma after listening to the preaching of the Jain acharya Ratnaprabhasuri. - Over time, these Rajput-origin families became Jain householders (śrāvaks), mostly engaged in trade, and came to be known as Oswal Jains.

1. Mohnot / Munot inside Oswals

- Within Oswals there are many gotras / surnames – like Surana, Bachhawat, Kothari, etc. - Mohnot / Munot is one such Oswal Jain gotra/surname listed among Oswal families. - So, if your family is Jain Mohnot or Jain Munot, your ancestry, in community terms, is “Oswal Jain” of Marwar–Rajasthan origin, historically linked to Rajput clans converted to Jainism.

1. Exact “family tree” ancestry

- The very specific ancestry (like “which exact Rajput clan, which first ancestor, from which village”) usually comes only from: - old family bāhīs / records, - kuldev / kuldevi traditions, - or your family’s own oral history. - Jain scriptures mainly preserve spiritual history, not detailed modern-family genealogies. - So Jain Dharma can tell you the community-level origin (Oswal → Rajput → Jain), but your precise lineage will depend on your own family documents and elders.

1. Spiritual view in Jainism

- From a Jain dharmic angle, gotra or surname does not affect your soul. - Real “ancestry” that matters spiritually is: - following ahiṃsā (non‑violence), - satya, achar (right conduct), - and moving towards samyak-darshan, samyak-jnān, samyak-chāritra (right faith, knowledge, conduct).

So in short: Mohnot / Munot Jains are generally Oswal Jains, whose community ancestry goes back to Rajput families of the Osian/Marwar region who accepted Jain Dharma. For more detailed “who was our first Mohnot/Munot ancestor”, you would need your own family’s records and elders.