Katania
Katania (कटाणिया) Katania (कटाणिया) gotra Jats live in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Variants
- Catanes (Anabasis by Arrian, p.246, 247.)
Origin
Katania Gotra probably originated from Catanes of Greeks, who rebelled against Alexander in 327 BC in the land of the Paraetacenians and killed, as mentioned by Arrian. [1]
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Cataonia was one of the divisions of ancient Cappadocia in Turkey. Cataonia is mentioned by Pliny. [2]
- Katania (Jat clan) = Katyayani (कात्यायनी) (L.2). Katyayani (कात्यायनी) (L.2) goddess is mentioned in Tahankapar Plate Of Pamparajadeva - (Kalachuri) Year 965 (=1213 AD). [3] Tahkapar (टहकापार) is a village in Charama tahsil of Kanker district in Chhattisgarh.
History
Catanese is an Italian surname, meaning literally "Catanian", "from the city of Catania" or "from the province of Catania". Catania is the capital of the Province of Catania, and is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.[4]
Greek History
Arrian[5] writes....After Capture of the Rock of Chorienes or Sogdian Rock (The Anabasis of Alexander:4.18, 4.21) in 327 BC...Alexander the Great himself went to Bactra; but sent Craterus with 600 of the cavalry Gompanions and his own brigade of infantry as well those of Polysperchon, Attalus, and Alcetas, against Catanes and Austanes, who were the only rebels still remaining in the land of the Paraetacenians. This term is a Persian word meaning mountaineers. The tribe mentioned here lived between the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes, on the borders of Bactria and Sogdiana. A sharp battle was fought with them in which Craterus was victorious; Catanes being killed there while fighting, and Austanes being captured and brought to Alexander. Of the barbarians with them 120 horsemen and about 1,500 foot soldiers were killed.
Ch.22: Alexander reaches the River Cabul, and Receives the Homage of Taxiles
Arrian[6] writes... After performing this exploit, Alexander himself went to Bactra; but sent Craterus with 600 of the cavalry Gompanions and his own brigade of infantry as well those of Polysperchon, Attalus, and Alcetas, against Catanes and Austanes, who were the only rebels still remaining in the land of the Paraetacenians.[1] A sharp battle was fought with them in which Craterus was victorious; Catanes being killed there while fighting, and Austanes being captured and brought to Alexander. Of the barbarians with them 120 horsemen and about 1,500 foot soldiers were killed. When Craterus had done this, he also went to Bactra, where the tragedy in reference to Callisthenes and the pages befell Alexander. As the spring was now over, he took the army and advanced from Bactra towards India,[2] leaving Amyntas in the land of the Bactrians with 3,500 horses and 10,000 foot. He crossed the Caucasus[3] in ten days and arrived at the city of Alexandria, which had been founded in the land of the Parapamisadae when he made his first expedition to Bactra. He dismissed from office the governor whom he had then placed over the city, because he thought he was not ruling well. He also settled in Alexandria others from the neighbouring tribes and the soldiers who were now unfit for service in addition to the first settlers, and commanded Nicanor, one of the Companions, to regulate the affairs of the city itself. Moreover he appointed Tyriaspes viceroy of the land of the Parapamisadae and of the rest of the country as far as the river Cophen.[4] Arriving at the city of Nicaea, he offered sacrifice to Athena and then advanced towards the Cophen, sending a herald forward to Taxiles[5] and the otter chiefs on this side the river Indus, to bid them come and meet him as each might find it convenient. Taxiles and the other chiefs accordingly did come to meet him, bringing the gifts which are reckoned of most value among the Indians. They said that they would also present to him the elephants which they had with them, twenty-five in number. There he divided his army, and sent Hephaestion and Perdiccas away into the land of Peucelaotis,[6] towards the river Indus, with the brigades of Gorgias, Clitus,[7] and Meleager, half of the Companion cavalry, and all the cavalry of the Grecian mercenaries. He gave them instructions either to capture the places on their route by force, or to bring them over on terms of capitulation; and when they reached the river Indus, to make the necessary preparations for the passage of the army. With them Taxiles and the other chiefs also marched. When they reached the river Indus they carried out all Alexander's orders. But Astes, the ruler of the land of Peucelaotis, effected a revolt, which both ruined himself and brought ruin also upon the city into which he had fled for refuge. For Hephaestion captured it after a siege of thirty days, and Astes himself was killed. Sangaeus, who had some time before fled from Astes and deserted to Taxiles, was appointed to take charge of the city. This desertion was a pledge to Alexander of his fidelity.
1. This term is a Persian word meaning mountaineers. The tribe mentioned here lived between the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes, on the borders of Bactria and Sogdiana.
2. Curtius (viii. 17) says Alexander took with him 30,000 select troops from all the conquered provinces, and that the army which he led against the Indians numbered 120,000 men.
3. This is the Indian Caucasus, or mount Parapamisus, now called Hindu-Koosh.
4. The Cophen is now called Cabul. Nicaea was probably on the same site as the city of Cabul. Others say it is Beghram. The Greek word Satrapes denotes a Persian viceroy. It is a corruption of a word meaning court-guardian, in the Behistun Inscriptions written Khshatrapa. See Rawlinson's Herod., i. 192.
5. Curtius (viii. 43) says that Taxiles was the title which the king of this district received. His name was Omphis.
6. A district between the rivers Indus and Attock. Its capital, Peucela, is the modern Pekheli.
7. The brigade of Clitus still bore the name of its commander after his death. Cf. Arrian, vii. 14 infra.
Distribution in Rajasthan
Villages in Jodhpur district
Khangta (5),
Villages in Nagaur district
Distribution in Madhya Pradesh
Villages in Dewas district
Notable persons
Hanuman Ram Kataniya , Principal Narayan School, khangta
Shravan Ram Kataniya IRS 2012 batch, also worked as RPS and RDS
External links
References
- ↑ Arrian:The Anabasis of Alexander/4b, Ch.22
- ↑ Pliny.vi.2, Pliny.vi.3, Pliny.vi.8, Pliny.vi.39
- ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.596-599
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanese
- ↑ Arrian:The Anabasis of Alexander/4b, Ch.22
- ↑ Arrian:The Anabasis of Alexander/4b, Ch.22
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