Dan

Dan (डाण) is a gotra of Jats.

History

• List of Kings of Babylon: Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina , ca. 943 – 920 BC , Contemporary of Ashur-Dan II of Assyria
• List of Assyrian kings: Ashur-Dan I, dates are consistent and not subject to middle/short Ashur-Dan I , ca. 1179–1133 BC , "son of Ashur-nadin-apli"
• List of Mesopotamian dynasties: Aššur-dan I, 1178-1133 BC. Assur-dan II, 934-912 BC
• Sado sections in Afghanistan are in two divisions — Jallo and Dan.

HA Rose

H.A. Rose writes that The Kassars (कस्सर) hold the greater part of the north-west quarter of the Chakwal tahsil in Jhelum. They were originally located in the country of Kinan in Asia Minor, whence they migrated to Ghazni at some time unknown with the ancestors of the Mughal dynasty, and subsequently accompanied Babar in his invasion of India in A. D. 1526, their ancestors at that time being Gharka and Bhin (or Bhol), according to some ; or Jajha, Lati and Kaulshi according to others : all agree, however, in stating that Gharka is buried on a mound in Mauza Hatar, not many miles from Dhok Pipli in Bal Kassar, which is said to be the original settlement of the tribe in these parts. The Dhanni was then in the hands of wanderingGujars, while Changas Khan Janjua held the hills to the south, living at Fort Samarqand near Mauza Maira. Babar made over to them the western part of the Dhanni, on condition that they would drain off the water with which the eastern part was then covered, a work which they proceeded to carry out: and Gharka obtained some additional country to the south-west as a reward for restoring to Changas Khan a favourite mare, which the Janjua Raja had lost. They claim that the name, Baluki Dan, under which the tract figures in the Ain-i-Akbari, is derived from that of their ancestor Bhal, who also gave his name to the important village of Bal Kassar ; and in this they are supported by the spelling of the lithographed edition of the Ain-i-Akhari, against the assertion of the Janjuas, that the name is Maluki Dhan, from the Janjua chief, Mal of Malot. They explain the presence now of the Mairs and Kahuts in the Dhanni by stating that, as relations of the reigning dynasty they were themselves able to keep out all intruders in the time of the Mughals ; but in Sikh rule the Mairs, being of the same stock as the powerful Jammu Raja, were able to obtain a footing in the tract : they generally admit that the Kahuts came with them in Babar's train and settled here at the same time as themselves, but say that they were of small account until the time of the Sikhs. They state that the original profession of the tribe was ' hukumat ' or government; and that it is now agriculture or Government employment. They use the title of Chaudhari. They have no special Pirs or places of worship, and their customs do not differ in any respect from those of the tribes surrounding them, except that the graves of women are distinguished by stone at the head and foot parallel to the breadth of the grave, while those of men's graves are parallel to the length ; -this is just the opposite of the custom in the Jhelum Pabbi.

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