Charad
Charad (चरड़) Charadya (चरडया) Chald (चल्ड) Gotra Jats live in Tonk district in Rajasthan.
History
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Chald = Chaldæa (Pliny.vi.30); Chaldæan Lake (Pliny.vi.31); Chaldaei/Chaldæi (people) (Pliny.vi.32)
- Chald = Chaldone (Pliny.vi.32).
Mention by Pliny
Pliny [1] mentions Arabia......... We will now proceed to describe the coast after leaving Charax13, which was first explored by order of king Epiphanes. We first come to the place where the mouth of the Euphrates formerly existed, the river Salsus14, and the Promontory of Chaldone15, from which spot, the sea along the coast, for an extent of fifty miles,16 bears more the aspect of a series of whirlpools than of ordinary sea; the river Achenus, and then a desert tract for a space of one hundred miles, until we come to the island of Ichara; the gulf of Capeus, on the shores of which dwell the Gaulopes and the Chateni, and then the gulf of Gerra17. Here we find the city of Gerra, five miles in circumference, with towers built of square blocks of salt.
13 Or rather, as Hardouin says, the shore opposite to Charax, and on the western bank of the river.
14 Called Core Boobian, a narrow salt-water channel, laid down for the first time in the East India Company's chart, and separating a large low island, off the mouth of the old bed of the Euphrates, from the mainland.
15 The great headland on the coast of Arabia, at the entrance of the bay of Doat-al-Kusma from the south, opposite to Pheleche Island.
16 This is the line of coast extending from the great headland last mentioned to the river Khadema, the ancient Achenus.
17 So called from the city of Arabia Felix, built on its shores. Strabo says of this city "The city of Gerra lies in a deep gulf, where Chaldæan exiles from Babylon inhabit a salt country, having houses built of salt, the walls of which, when they are wasted by the heat of the sun, are repaired by copious applications of sea-water." D'Anville first identified this place with the modern El Khatiff. Niebuhr finds its site on the modern Koneit of the Arabs, called "Gran" by the Persians; but Foster is of opinion that he discovered its ruins in the East India Company's Chart, situate where all the ancient authorities had placed it, at the end of the deep and narrow bay at the mouth of which are situated the islands of Bahrein. The gulf mentioned by Pliny is identified by Foster with that of Bahrein.
Distribution in Rajasthan
Villages in Ajmer district
Villages in Tonk district
Bagadi (1), Beejwar, Miya ki Dhani (2), Morla (13),
Distribution in Madhya Pradesh
Villages in Sheopur district
Chald (चल्ड) Jats live in villages: Jat Kheda,
Notable persons
- Bhawana Ram Charad: Born at village Morla in Malpura tahsil in Tonk district, who could walk on water and whose songs are sung in every village of this region.
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