Kinha

Kinha (किन्हा) Kinhah (किन्हाह) Kine (किने) Kinah (किनाह)/Kina (किना) is Gotra of Jats. Keena/Kina (कीना)/Kina (किना) Jats live in Rajasthan and Haryana.

Origin

This gotra is said to be started from Kekan (केकन) or Kilat (किलात).

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Kine = Cennesseris (Pliny.vi.32).

• Kinha (किन्हा) → Kinhi (किन्ही) = Kinihikhetaka (किणिहिखेटक) mentioned in Siwani Plates of 18th year of Pravarasena II. Kinhi (किन्ही) is a village in Kirnapur tahsil in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. It is situated on the eastern bank of Bagh River, a tributary of Wainganga.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Arabia.........the Ilisanitæ, the Bachilitæ, the Samnæi, the Amitei, with the towns of Nessa⁵⁵ and Cennesseris, the Zamareni, with the towns of Sagiatta and Canthace, the Bacascami, the town of Riphearma, the name by which they call barley, the Autei, the Ethravi, the Cyrei and the Mathatræi, the Helmodenes, with the town of Ebode, the Agacturi, dwelling in the mountains, with a town twenty miles distant, in which is a fountain called Ænuscabales⁵⁶, which signifies "the town of the camels."

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55 Agatharchides speaks of a town on the sea coast, which was so called from the multitude of ducks found there. The one here spoken of was in the interior, and cannot be the same.

56 Hardouin observes, that neither this word, nor the name Riphearma, above mentioned, has either a Hebrew or an Arabian origin.

Distribution in Haryana

Villages in Gurgaon district

Tirpari,Khapadwas

Villages in Faridabad district

Nagla Jogian,

Villages in Jhajjar district

Machhrauli, Badsa

Villages in Rewari district

Rohrai

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Alwar district

Daudpur (दाऊदपुर),

Villages in Jaipur district

Keena Jats live in villages: Rajnota, Pragpura, Kotputli

Notable persons

• Ashok Kinha - General Partner & Managing Director, Athamus Venture Management Pvt. Ltd.
• Akhil Kinha - Managing Director at Sphinx Security Services.
• Nikhil Kinha - Founder, PRA(Pinnakle Risk Advisory & Consultants LLP).
• Mange Ram Chaudhary -

References

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