Darotiya

Darotiya (दरोटिया) is a Jat Gotra.

Origin

Darotiya = Daritis (Pliny.vi.25), Situate, according to Ptolemy, in the eastern parts of Media.

Variants

• Daritis (Pliny.vi.25)

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Darotiya = Daritis (Pliny.vi.25).

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions The Ariani and the adjoining Nations..... Some writers will also have it that Daritis²⁹ forms part of Ariana, and give the length of them both as nineteen hundred and fifty miles, and the breadth one half of that³⁰ of India. Others again have spread the Gedrusi and the Pasires over an extent of one hundred and thirty-eight miles, and place next to them the Ichthyophagi Oritæ³¹, a people who speak a language peculiar to themselves, and not the Indian dialect, extending over a space of two hundred miles.

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29 Situate, according to Ptolemy, in the eastern parts of Media.

30 For this measurement see c. 21.

31 Meaning the "Fish-eating Mountaineers." According to Parisot they occupied the site of the modern Dulcidan, and Goadel, which are bounded by mountains, whence the name.

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