Gorya
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Gorya (गोरया) Goraya (गोरया) Gaur (गौर) Ghor (घोर) Gauru (गौरु) Goru (गोरु) Gaurlia (गौरलिया) is gotra of Jats. This gotra Jats are found in Punjab, Gujarat and also in Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh. As per Manusamhita Yuvanashwa king married to a girl Gauri of matinara (मतिनार) Chandravanshi clan. Samrata Mandhata was born from them. After Gauri's name the title of Mandhata became Gaur.[1]
History
According to Bhim Singh Dahiya, This clan can be traced back to the third century BC. Ptolemy has referred to country named Goruaia and to a town named Goraya. Strabo has also mentioned it.[2] This country was situated in Pamir mountains, between Badakhshan and Khotan in central Asia. As per W.W. Tarn, Goruaia was a part of Menander's empire in second century BC. [3] After their arrival in India, these people of Gorayā clan of Jats, founded another town on GT Road, between Ludhiana and Jalandhar and named it after old principal city in Central Asia as Gorāyā. These people are still residing in the same area. Possibly the Gaur/Gauru/Grauri Jats are same as Goraya because Ptolemy says that it was irrigated by Gauraya river (Gaur/Ghor) of the Puranas.[4] Markandeya Purana mentions the Ghora and the Guruha separately. [5] [6]
Jat villages in Mandsaur district
Nataram (Sitamau), Ralayta (Haidra Mata),
References
- ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998 p. 237
- ↑ XV, p. 567
- ↑ The Greeks in Bactria and India, p. 226
- ↑ Majumdar, Ancient India, p. 109-110
- ↑ LVIII, p. 36
- ↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya, Jats, the Ancient Rulers ( A clan study), 1980, Sterling Publishers New Delhi
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