Arosapes
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Arosapes was a river mentioned by Pliny[1].
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Agha = Arghasan = Arosapes (Pliny.vi.25).
- Arghun = Arghasan = Arosapes (Pliny.vi.25). Arghun was a Jat King in Afghanistan.[2] [3]
- Oghlan = Arghun = Arghasan = Arosapes (Pliny.vi.25). Arghun was a Jat King in Afghanistan.[4] [5]
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[6] mentions The Ariani and the adjoining Nations..... Below all these countries, is the line of coast which we come to after leaving the Indus. Ariana13 is a region parched by the sun and surrounded by deserts; still, however, as the face of the country is every here and there diversified with well-shaded spots, it finds communities grouped together to cultivate it, and more especially around the two rivers, known as the Tonberos14 and the Arosapes.15 There is also the town of Artacoana16, and the river Arius17, which flows past Alexandria18 a city founded by Alexander; this place is thirty stadia in extent. Much more beautiful than it, as well as of much greater antiquity, is Artacabane19, fortified a second time by Antiochus, and fifty stadia in breadth.
13 Pliny is thought to have here confounded the extensive district of Ariana with the smaller province of Aria, which only formed a portion of it. Ariana comprehended nearly the whole of what had been previously ancient Persia.
14 The river known in modern times as the Ilincut, according to Parisot.
15 This is supposed by Forbiger to be the modern Arghasan, one of the tributaries of the Helmend. Parisot says that it was the same as the modern Sat.
16 27 Supposed to be the same as the "Aria civitas," or "city of Aria" of other authors, which, however, is most probably represented by Alexandria, the modern Herat, situate on the small stream now called the Heri-Rud. At all events, Artacoana (proved by M. Court to be a word of Persian origin —Arde Koun) was, if not the same place, at a very small distance from it. M. Barbie de Bocage is of opinion that it occupied the site of Fushing, a town on the Heri river, one stage from Herat; and by M. Court it is thought to have been at Obeh, near the same place.
17 Now called the Heri-Rud, which runs to the west of Herat.
18 It is said that, judging from a traditional verse still current among the people of Herat, that town is believed to unite the claims of the ancient capital built by Alexander the Great, or indeed, more properly, repaired by him, as he was but a short time in Aria. The distance also from the Caspian Gates to Alexandria favours its identification with the modern Herat.
19 This place does not appear to have been identified.
History
Jat History
Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria)[7] mentions .... Tribal and Geographical Identifications based on India in Greece by E. Pococke, Indian Reprint, Oriental Publishers, Delhi-6.
| S.No. | Name of tribe | From | To | Altered name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18. | Arghas | Afghanistan | Argasan, Argo | Argolis | Greece |
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References
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 25
- ↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya : Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/The Jats,p.67
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.38
- ↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya : Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/The Jats,p.67
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.38
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 25
- ↑ The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/Appendices/Appendix No.6