Maukhari

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Maukhari (मौखरी) Mokhari (मोखरी) is gotra of Jats in India. The people who came from Maukal (मौकल) country were called Maukhari. There is a village named Maukhara (मौखरा) which is also believed to be the origin of Maukhari clan.^[1]

History

Thakurela Jats were the rulers of Nepal, who had relations with Maukhari Jats. Harshavardhana was ruler of Thanesar and he was Jat. The Maukhari, Thakuri and Harshavardhana clans had marital relations. Harshavardhana was Virk or Bains gotra Jat. ^[2]According to the historians Bhim Singh Dahiya^[3] and Thakur Deshraj^[4]Harsha’s clan was Virk, but Dilip Singh Ahlawat, Carlyle and Alexander Cunningham say that he belonged to the Bains clan of Jats. The Virk clan is linked to the Virks of Mandsaur, Central India, and Bains to the Punjab. Both Bains and Virk are clans of the Jats.

Megasthenes has described about this clan in Indica as Megari. He writes, Then next to these towards the Indus come, in an order which is easy to follow The Amatae (Antal), Bolingae (Balyan), Gallitalutae (Gahlot), Dimuri (Dahiya), Megari (Maukhari), Ordabae (Buria), Mese (Matsya). (See -Jat_clans_as_described_by_Megasthenes)

Reference

1. ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998, p.274
2. ↑ Kishori Lal Faujdar: Uttar Pradesh ke Madhyakalin Jatvansh and Rajya, Jat Samaj, Agra, Septwember-October 1999.
3. ↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya : Jats the Ancient Rulers, Dahinam Publishers, Sonepat, Haryana
4. ↑ Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992.

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