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Kuvaal (कुवाल) Kuval (कुवाल) Kuwal (कुवाल) Kuaal (कुआल) Gotra Jats live in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Origin

  • Kuval clan may get name from King Kuvalayāpira mentioned in the history of Kashmir by Kalhana.[1]
  • They probably get name after Kuban geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River.

History

King Kuvalayapira mentioned in the history of Kashmir by Kalhana ruled from 733-734 AD.[2]

Jat History connections

Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria)[3] writes that The Russian archaeologists discovered innumerable graves of the Saka Kings and chieftains in the Kuban, north of the Caucasus (7th-6th century B.C.), in the Crimea, in south Russia, in the Taman peninsula, in the Dnieper Valley as far up as Kiev, as well as in the Don, Donetz and Volga basins as far westwards as the Urals, in the Dunube basin as far west as Hungary and in what used to be East Prussia and is now Western Poland (6th-5th century B.C.)107. Excavations of the Royal Scythian tombs by M.P. Gryazhnov, S.I. Rudenko and others at Pazyryk and other sites in the Western Altai and nearer to lake Baikal (6th-4th century B.C. contemporary of Herodotus's Royal Scythians of South Russia) were most interesting and informative[4].

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Tonk district

Bagadi (2),

Villages in Sawai Madhopur district

Mahapura Chauth Ka Barwara,

Villages in Jaipur district

Kuaal (कुआल) Jats live in villages: Chandrapura Chandma (1),

Kuwal (कुवाल) Jats live in villages: Maadi (2),

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Dhar district

Sandla,

Notable persons

External links

References

  1. Rajatarangini of Kalhana:Kings of Kashmira/Book IV,pp.81-82
  2. Rajatarangini of Kalhana:Kings of Kashmira/List of Kings,p.xxi
  3. The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/The identification of the Jats,p.318
  4. Artamonov, M.I.; 'Frozen Tombs of the Scythians', in the Scientific American, May, 1965, Vol. 212, No.5, pp. 100-109.

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