Kaniya
Kaniya (काणिया) Kani (काणी)/Kana (काणा)[1]Kanniya (कांणिया)[2] Gotra Jats live in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Kana/Kani clan is found in Afghanistan.[3]
Origin
They may have originated from Kanirajanu Tissa (30-33 AD), who was Buddhist King of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka in the 1st century.
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Kaniya = Cyaneæ (Pliny.vi.13)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[4] mentions The Islands of the Euxine.... The islands of the Euxine are the Placate or Cyaneæ1, otherwise called Symplegades, and Apollonia, surnamed Thynias2, to distinguish it from the island of that name3 in Europe; it is four miles in circumference, and one mile distant from the mainland. Opposite to Pharnacea4 is Chalceritis, to which the Greeks have given the name of Aria5, and consecrated it to Mars; here, they say, there were birds that used to attack strangers with blows of their wings.
1 Already mentioned in B. iv. c. 27.
2 Mentioned in c. 44 of the last Book.
3 The one lying at the mouth of the Danube, and mentioned in B. iv. c. 27.
4 Mentioned in c. 4 of the present Book. See p. 9.
5 Or "Mars' Island," also called Aretias; at this island, in the south of the Euxine, the two queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a temple in honour of Ares or Mars. It is thought to be the rocky islet called by the Turks Kerasunt Ada, between three and four miles from Kerasunt, the ancient Pharnacea.
History
We find mention on Sanchi Inscriptions:
- No. 85. — Sethino-mātu Kaniya dānam.
- "Gift of Kaniya, the mother of the Sreshti." [5]
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Cane (Qana) was the ancient principal Hadrami trading post between India and Africa, with incense producing areas in its hinterland.[6] Cane is the southern most port in South Arabia.
In Mahavansa
Mahavansa/Chapter 35 tells ....After Maha Dathika 's death Amanda Gamani, his son, reigned nine years and eight months. ....Amanda Gamani's younger brother, the prince Kanirajanu Tissa, reigned three years in the city, when he had slain his brother. He decided the lawsuit concerning the uposatha-house in the (vihara) named after the cetiya, but sixty bhikkhus who were involved in the crime of high treason did the king order to be taken captive, with all that was theirs, upon the Cetiyapabbata, and he commanded these evildoers to be flung into the caves called Kanira.
Distribution in Gujarat
Villages in Banas Kantha district
Distribution in Madhya Pradesh
Villages in Ujjain district
Urdupura (a locality of Ujjain city)[7]
Villages in Khargone district
Distribution in Rajasthan
Villages in Ajmer district
Kaniya clan people live in villages: Ghaslo Ki Dhani (1), Sursura (10),
Notable persons
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References
- ↑ डॉ पेमाराम:राजस्थान के जाटों का इतिहास, 2010, पृ.297,298
- ↑ डॉ पेमाराम:राजस्थान के जाटों का इतिहास, 2010, पृ.298
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.78,108,113,161
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 13
- ↑ The Bhilsa topes: Inscriptions, Page 248
- ↑ "Myos Hormos". Maritime Incense Route.
- ↑ User:Sk56
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