Gaina

From Jatland Wiki

Gaina (गैना/गैणा) Gainan (गैनां/गैणां) Gena (गेना) Gaindhar (गैन्धर), Gaindhala (गैन्धल) Gaindhu (गैन्धु) is a gotra of Jats found in District Ajmer and Bharatpur in Rajasthan. They have originated from Gandhar. Gaina Jats are also found in Marwar region of Rajasthan.

History

They have been mentioned in Mahabharata Shalya Parva. Mahabharata Shalya Parva mentions names of combatants armed with diverse weapons and clad in diverse kinds of robes and ornaments, All of them came to the ceremony for investing Kartikeya with the status of generalissimo. Shalya Parva in Sanskrit mentions in shloka 62 Gaina along with Banas as under:

गायनॊ हसनश चैव बाणः खड्गश च वीर्यवान

वैताली चातिताली च तदा कतिक वातिकौ |62 |

Gaina in Afghanistan

Afghanistan was part of Bharat Varsh during Mahabharata period. The wife of Dhritrashtra, Gandhari, was from this area. Sometimes there were Indian rulers and sometimes there were Iranian rulers in Afghanistan. During Chandra Gupta’s period Saubhagsen was king in Afghanistan. Jat rulers till the invasion by Mughals ruled Kandahar. After the Mughal invasion some Jats moved to India and others were converted to Muslims. Jats from Afghanistan moved to India during the rule of Shalivahan. According to Henry Eliot, author of the book “Distribution of the races of north western provinces of India”, The Jats settled on the banks of Chenab River in Punjab, call there area as Herat because they believe that they had come from Herat of Iran. According to Thakur Deshraj the present Sistan was ruled by Jats and that area was known as Shivistan (place of Shivi gotra Jats). Cunningham states that Jats mixed with Rajputs and Afghans. Later these people were called Bloch.

According to Jat historian Ram Swarup Joon, "Afghanistan was called Upguanstan, Baluchijostan both of that are Sanskrit words. Both these countries were part of India till, as late as the Mogul period. King Seth of the Ardas branch of Yayati dynasty had a son called Arh, whose son Gandhara founded the town of Gandhar, now known as Kandhar. Gandhari, mother of Duryodhana was from this town. Jats have gotras of this dynasty named Gaina, Gaindhar, Gaindhala and Gaindhu.

Rulers in Rajasthan

They were rulers of some republics in Didwana area in Nagaur. Probably a group of Johiya Jats was known as Gaina. There is a village called Bardu in Didwana area in which a marble stone inscription bears a portrait of Jat chieftain named Kisna Ram Gaina, who has been shown carrying weapons side by side of statue of his wife Sati Rani. This inscription bears date as chait badi 6 samvat 1814. They ruled here for many centuries. There is also a statue of a Gaina girl that bears date jeth badi samvat 1134. She died here after his only son died in a war with muslim enemy from Sindh.

राजस्थान में ११वीं शदी के लोकदेवता तेजाजी जब अपनी पत्नी को लाने ससुराल जाते हैं तो रास्ते में गैना तालाब पर पानी पीने का लेख आता है. तेजाजी नें रास और पुराणी फैंकदी और ससुराल जाने की कसम खा बैठे-

   ऐ सम्हाळो थारी रास पुराणी भाभी म्हारा ओ 

   अब म्हे तो प्रभात जास्यां सासरॅ 

   हरिया-हरिया थे घास चरल्यो बैलां म्हारा ओ 

   पाणिड़ो पीवो नॅ थे गैण तळाव रो।

Locations in Jaipur city

Vaishali Nagar,

Gaina in Goths

There is an article on Wikipedia that mentions about Saint Nilus, who was an officer at the Court of Constantinople, and is said to have been one of the Praetorian Prefects, who, according to Diocletian and Constantine's arrangement, were the chief functionaries and heads of all other governors for the four main divisions of the empire. Their authority, however, had already begun to decline by the end of the 4th century. He was known as a theologian, Biblical scholar and ascetic writer, so people of all kinds, from the emperor down, wrote to consult him. He kept up a correspondence with Gaina, a leader of the Goths, endeavouring to convert him from Arianism (Book I of his letters, nos. 70, 79, 114, 115, 116, 205, 206, 286); he denounced vigorously the persecution of St. John Chrysostom both to the Emperor Arcadius (ib., II, 265; III, 279) and to his courtiers (I, 309; III, 199).

Notable persons from this gotra

• C.B.Gaina - Professor and V.C. Bikaner University
• Dr. Narendra choudhary - He is pursuing M.D. from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi. He belongs to Alwar district in Rajasthan.
• SEP SAJJAN SINGH GAINAN - Rashtriya Rifles OP RAKSHAK(J&K) MARTYR 31-12-1998, Rajasthan

Reference

• Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992. page 608-609
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nilus

External links

• Professor Gaina on Khabar Express

Back to Gotras