Misari
Misari (मिसरी) (Misri) is a Jat clan found in Afghanistan.[1]
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Origin
Gets name after Nagavanshi King Misri.
History
Misari Village is in in Kondagaon tahsil, Bastar District in Chhattisgarh.
Mahabharata:At (14,4) (Last moments of Bala Rama) the name of principal Naga chiefs were mentioned as:-
Karkotaka and Vasuki and Takshaka and Prithusravas and Varuna and Kunjara, and Misri and Sankha and Kumuda and Pundarika, Dhritarashtra, and Hrada and Kratha and Sitikantha of fierce energy, and Chakramanda and Atishanda, Durmukha, and Amvarisha, and king Varuna.
Misari, above recognised as the Indian Mysari of Jaisalmer and the desert to its north, are by the Afghans supposed to represent Egyptians, and to be of the same stock as the Cubti or Copts, who are found dwelling amongst the Hazarah, and whom we shall notice later on. [2]
Notable persons
Reference
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.25,109,112
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.25
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