Shaku
Shaku (शाकू) Saku ((साकू)) is a Jat clan found in Afghanistan. [1]
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Origin
Be that Jas it may, pro tempore, we learn from the above sources that the progenitor race of the Jats was known as Saku in Persian. [2][3]
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Saku = Socotra = Dioscoridu (Pliny.vi.32)
- Shaku = Socotra = Dioscoridu (Pliny.vi.32)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[4] mentions Arabia....Opposite to this place, in the main sea, lies the island of Ogyris32, famous for being the burial-place of king Erythras33; it is distant from the mainland one hundred and twenty miles, being one hundred and twelve in circumference. No less famous is another island, called Dioscoridu34, and lying in the Azanian Sea35; it is distant two hundred and eighty miles from the extreme point of the Promontory of Syagrus36.
32 Hardouin and Ansart think that under this name is meant the island called in modern times Mazira or Maceira.
33 There seem to have been three mythical personages of this name; but it appears impossible to distinguish the one from the other.
34 Or "Dioscoridis Insula," an island of the Indian Ocean, of considerable importance as an emporium or mart, in ancient times. It lay between the Syagrus Promontorium, in Arabia, and Aromata Promontorium, now Cape Guardafui, on the opposite coast of Africa, somewhat nearer to the former, according to Arrian, which cannot be the case if it is rightly identified with Socotorra, 200 miles distant from the Arabian coast, and 110 from the north-east promontory of Africa.
35 So called from Azania, or Barbaria, now Ajan, south of Somauli, on the mainland of Africa.
36 Now Cape Fartash, in Arabia.
Jat Gotras Namesake
Socotra (सोकोट्रा) is an island of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean.[5] Socotra is 340 km south-east of Yemen and east of the Horn of Africa. It is situated close to the mouth of Red Sea and Governed by Yemen today.[6] In 2008 Socotra was recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[7] It has been described as "the most alien-looking place on Earth."[8]
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Reference
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.27
- ↑ The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations by Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria),p.297
- ↑ Sircar, op.cit., pp. 4·11. Dalton, op.cit., pp. XL-VII.
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 32
- ↑ Burrowes, Robert D. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen. Scarecrow Press. pp. 361–362. ISBN 978-0-8108-5528-1; Robinson, Peg; Hestler, Anna; Spilling, Jo-Ann (2019). Yemen. Cavendish Square. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-50264-162-5.
- ↑ Kurush Dalal-Socotra Island:A Heaven for Ancient Indian Seafarers
- ↑ https://www.sabanews.net/en/news151852.htm "EU to protect Socotra archipelago environment". Saba Net. Yemen News Agency (SABA). 15 April 2008.
- ↑ Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton (1980). The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Hakluyt Society. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-904180-05-3.
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