Codani
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Codani was an Arabian tribe mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Kodan = Codani (Pliny.vi.32). Kodani is village in Honavar tahsil in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. It is part of Konkan region.
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Arabia.....Next to these are the Chaculatæ; then the town of Sibi, by the Greeks called Apate42; the Arsi, the Codani, the Vadei, who dwell in a large town, the Barasasæi, the Lechieni, and the island of Sygaros43, into the interior of which no dogs are admitted, and so being exposed on the sea shore, they wander about there and are left to die.
42 A name which looks very much like "fraud," or "cheating," as Hardouin observes, from the Greek ἀπάτη.
43 Off the Promontory of Ras-el-Had.