Mard

Mard (मर्ड) is a gotra of Jats. It is branch of Bharhaich Gotra.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Mard = Mardani (Pliny.vi.30)
• Mirda = Mardani (Pliny.vi.30)

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Mard = Mardi (Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 5, Pliny.vi.5,Pliny.vi.18, Pliny.vi.19, Pliny.vi.31)

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Mard = Mardians (Anabasis by Arrian, p. 161, 164, 297.)

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Mesopotamia.... The whole of Mesopotamia formerly belonged to the Assyrians, being covered with nothing but villages, with the exception of Babylonia¹ and Ninus.² The Macedonians formed these communities into cities, being prompted thereto by the extraordinary fertility of the soil.

Besides the cities already mentioned, it contains those of Seleucia³, Laodicea⁴, Artemita⁵; and in Arabia, the peoples known as the Orei⁶ and the Mardani, besides Antiochia⁷, founded by Nicanor, the governor of Mesopotamia, and called Arabis.

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1 The great seat of empire of the Babylonio-Chaldæan kingdom. It either occupied the site, it is supposed, or stood in the immediate vicinity of the tower of Babel. In the reign of Labynedus, Nabonnetus, or Bel- shazzar, it was taken by Cyrus. In the reign of Augustus, a small part only of Babylon was still inhabited, the remainder of the space within the walls being under cultivation. The ruins of Babylon are found to commence a little south of the village of Mohawill, eight miles north of Hillah.

2 Nineveh. See c. 16 of the present Book.

3 On the left bank of the Euphrates, opposite to the ford of Zeugma; a fortress of considerable importance.

4 Its site is unknown. Dupinet confounds it with the place of this name mentioned in the last Chapter, calling them by the name of Lor.

5 Pliny is wrong in placing Artemita in Mesopotamia. It was a city of Babylonia, in the district of Apolloniatis. The modern Sherbán is supposed to occupy its site.

6 Burnouf, having found the name of these people, as he supposes, in a cuneiform inscription, written "Ayura," would have them to be called Aroei. The Orei are also mentioned in B. v. c. 20.

7 This Antioch does not appear to have been identified.

History

Mardani were people mentioned in Mesopotamia by Pliny.

Mardi were an ancient Iranian tribe living along the mountainous region bordering the Caspian Sea to the north

Ram Swarup Joon writes In or about the 10th century A.D. Bharhaich people moved down to the river Jhelum in large numbers and settled down there. Till the 13th century AD they continued to fight with the Gakhar, Janjoha and the Gujars. Even to day they occupy a very compact area comprising 360 villages in a region called Jatat. In the days of Ferozshah Tughluq a leader of these Jats named Heriya, joined Islam. A village founded by him is known as Hariyawala. After him all the Jats of this gotra joined Islam. Sagarh and Mard gotras are branches of this gotra.

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