Homar

Homar (होमर) Homar (होमर) Homarwar (होमरवार) Haumal (हौमल) Homal (होमल) is gotra of Jats in Madhya Pradesh. Haumal live in Uttar Pradesh.

Origin

Haumal (हौमल) are said to be descendants of people Rajarshi Hotravahana (होत्रवाहन).

Jat Gotra Namesake

• Homer = Homeritæ (Pliny.vi.32)

• Homer = Hamirei (Pliny.vi.32)

Homerite or Himyarite was a Kingdom referred to as the Homerite Kingdom (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE) by the Greeks and the Romans, was a polity and region in the southern highlands of Yemen. Its subjects being called Homeritae.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Arabia..... Next comes a town, fourteen miles distant, called Marippa, and belonging to the Palamaces, a place by no means to be overlooked, and then Carnon. The Rhadamæi also—these too are supposed to derive their origin⁵² from Rhadamanthus, the brother of Minos—the Homeritæ⁵³, with their city of Masala⁵⁴, the Hamirei, the Gedranitæ, the Amphyræ,...

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52 A story as probable, Hardouin observes, as that about the descendants of Minos.

53 The Arabs of Yemen, known in Oriental history by the name of Himyari, were called by the Greeks Homeritæ.

54 An inland city, called Masthala by Ptolemy.

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Homarwar (होमरवार) is Gotra of Jats found in Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh.

Villages in Ratlam district

Villages in Ratlam district with population of this gotra are:

Hat pipalya 1,

References

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