Fadak
Fadak (फडाक)[1] Fadag (फडाग) Phadak (फडाक) Fadak (फड़ाक) Farak (फड़ाक) Pharak (फड़ाक) Phadak (फड़ाक) is gotra of Jats [2] Fadak (फडाक) are found in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Origin
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Pharak = Pharnacea (Pliny.vi.13).
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[3] mentions The Islands of the Euxine (Black Sea).... The islands of the Euxine are the Placate or Cyaneæ1, otherwise called Symplegades, and Apollonia, surnamed Thynias2, to distinguish it from the island of that name3 in Europe; it is four miles in circumference, and one mile distant from the mainland. Opposite to Pharnacea4 is Chalceritis, to which the Greeks have given the name of Aria5, and consecrated it to Mars; here, they say, there were birds that used to attack strangers with blows of their wings.
1 Already mentioned in B. iv. c. 27.
2 Mentioned in c. 44 of the last Book.
3 The one lying at the mouth of the Danube, and mentioned in B. iv. c. 27.
4 Mentioned in c. 4 of the present Book. See p. 9.
5 Or "Mars' Island," also called Aretias; at this island, in the south of the Euxine, the two queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a temple in honour of Ares or Mars. It is thought to be the rocky islet called by the Turks Kerasunt Ada, between three and four miles from Kerasunt, the ancient Pharnacea.
History
Distribution in Rajasthan
Villages in Jodhpur district
Bogasani, Daikara Hariya Dhana, Jhak Bilara, Khejarla, Murkasni, Nandadi, Ransi Gaon, Banar Jodhpur,
Distribution in Madhya Pradesh
Villages in Harda district
Villages in Dewas district
Villages in Dhar district
Villages in Sehore district
Notable persons
- Mahipal Fadak - Student Leader and Social Worker, from Murkasani,Bilada, Jodhpur,Rajasthan. Mob: 9460957907
External links
References
- ↑ O.S.Tugania:Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu,p.49,s.n. 1569
- ↑ Mahendra Singh Arya et al.: Adhunik Jat Itihas, p.265
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 13
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