Kara

Kara (करा) Kara (कारा) is Jat Gotra in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh. They are Shivagotri.

Origin

Kara (कार), special taxes, is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. ^[1]

Ram Sarup Joon^[2] writes that ....According to the research of Hem Chandra, Lichhavis belonged to Madrak dynasty and were called Karskar or Kakkar because of their origin from Kar. Shale, Shal, Shi, all originating from Sialkot are also Madrak. In Sanskrit Scripture they have been called Jatra or Jatrali meaning Jat.

Adi Parva, Mahabharata/Mahabharata Book I Chapter 57 tells Names of all those Nagas that fell into the fire of the snake-sacrifice. Kara is mentioned in shloka 8 as Nagas of race of Takshaka.

उच्छिखः सुरसॊ दरङ्गॊ बलहेडॊ विरॊहणः

शिली शल करॊ मूकः सुकुमारः प्रवेपनः

Kara (Jat clan) = Rajim Stone Inscription of Prithvideva II - Kalachuri Year 896 (=1145 AD) traces the genealogy of the donor Jagapâla from the Thakkura Sâhilla. This Sâhilla (साहिल्ल) is not known from other records. Râjamâla (राजमाल), in whose family he was born, may be identical with the king Râjamalla (राजमल्ल) who is described in a grant of the queen Tribhuvana-mahâdëvî of the Kara dynasty as an ornament of the southern regions. He was the father of the queen and had given his valuable support to re-establish the power of the Karas in a great crisis in their history after the death of their ruling prince who was perhaps his own son-in-law.² If the proposed identification is correct, Sâhilla seems to have emigrated from the eastern coast to seek his fortune in Chhattisgarh. (p.452) ^[3]

Kara population is 5,355 in Amritsar district.^[4]

Villages in Ratlam district with population of this gotra are: