Kokra
Kokra (कोकड़ा) Kokda (कोकड़ा) Kokra (कोकरा) is a gotra of Jats.[1] Kokra (कोकरा) is a variant of Khokar.[2] Bustam Raja, surnamed Kokra, was governor of the Punjab and had his capital at Kokrana[3], present districts of Sargodha and Jhang in Pakistan.
Origin
History
H.A. Rose[4] describes The traditional history of the Khokhars* as under:
Beorasahsa,† who succeeded Jamshid, King of Persia, was called Dahak or the ' Ten Calamities.' On his shoulders were two snake-like tumours, -whence he was nick-named Maran or Aydaha by the Persians, and called Dahak (or Zuhak)†† Marda, while his descendants were designated Tak§-bansi, Nag-bansi or Takshak. About 1500 B. C. Kama, the iron-smith, aided Faridun, a descendant of Jamshid, to subdue Dahak, who was cast into the well of Koh Damavind, and Faridun became King of Persia. One of Dahak's descendants, named Bustam Raja, surnamed Kokra, was governor of the Punjab and had his capital at Kokrana., on a hill in the Chinhath Doab, but it is now called Koh Kirana.‖ At the same time Mihrab, also a descendant of Zuhak, held Kabul as a feudatory of Faridun.
- * By a Khokhar of Khokharain, in the Hoshiarpur district, Punjab.
- † Afrasiab.
- †† Zuhak is merely the Arabicised form of Dahak. Zuhaka was another name for Zahal, the ancient fortified city, identified by Raverty with the Maidan-i-Rustam Koh, visited by Babar. It was Rustam's appanage and lies on the sources of the Tochi and the Zurmat rivers.
- ‖ A singularly unsuccessful attempt to identify the isolated Kirana Hill, that in the Jhang district, with Kokrana by assuming that the syllable ko- was mistaken for the Persian koh, mountain and dropped in the course of time—an utterly impossible suggestion.
After acquiring the Persian throne, Faridun marched against Dahak's descendants. Bustam fled and sought refuge in the Hill of Ghor, west of Kandahar, where his people ruled for generations, being called Ghori or Ghoria and all being pagans.
कोकरा
कोकरा (AS, p.229) - कोकरा मुग़ल काल में छोटा नागपुर का नाम था। इसका नामोल्लेख अबुल-फ़ज़ल तथा 'तुजुक-ए-जहाँगीरी' में हुआ है।[5]
Notable persons
Distribution
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References
- ↑ डॉ पेमाराम:राजस्थान के जाटों का इतिहास, 2010, पृ.297
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/K, pp.540-541
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/K, pp.540-541
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/K, pp.540-541
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.229
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