Mogar

Mogar (मोगर) Mongar (मोंगर) gotra Jats live in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Mogar = Moggore (Pliny.vi.35)

• Mogar = Mogrus (Pliny.vi.4)

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions The region of Themiscyra, and the nations therein.... At the back of the mountains of this district is Iberia, while on the coast are the Heniochi, the Ampreutæ²⁵, the Lazi, the rivers Acampsis,²⁶ Isis,²⁷ Mogrus, and Bathys,²⁸ the nations of the Colchi, the town of Matium,²⁹ the river Heracleum and the promontory of the same name,³⁰ and the Phasis,³¹ the most celebrated river of Pontus.

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25 It is suggested by Hardouin that these are the same as the Zydretæ mentioned in the Periplus of Arrian, and by him placed between the Heniochi and the Lazi.

26 See note 91.

27 Supposed to be the same as the modem Tshorok.

28 Or "Deep" River. This stream may possibly be identified by observing that Pliny places only one river between it and the Phasis.

29 Probably the Madia of Ptolemy, who places it in the interior.

30 At the present day called Eraklia, according to Parisot.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Ethiopia.... On the African side⁵ we find mentioned, either what is another place with the same name of Tacompsos, or else a part of the one before-mentioned, and after it Moggore, Sæa, Edos, Plenariæ, Pinnis, Magassa, Buma, Linthuma, Spintum, Sydop, the Censi, Pindicitora, Acug, Orsum, Sansa, Maumarum, Urbim, the town of Molum, by the Greeks called Hypaton⁶, Pagoarca, Zmanes, at which point elephants begin to be found, the Mambli, Berressa, and Acetuma; there was formerly a town also called Epis, over against Meroë, which had, however, been destroyed before Bion wrote.

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5 Or western side of the Nile, between Syene and Meroë.

6 υπατὸν, the "supreme," or perhaps the "last."

History

Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria) writes: Investigations show that the Sobii, Sophites, Kathai & Malli, being cognate tribes, were intimately connected with each other and also with the Gakhars and Taxili (Takasali or the Takkas or Takshakas). Daci (Daki in Jatu dialect) and Dacia of Roman history or Dasyu of Sanskrit or Dasae of Stephen us Byzantinus are Dahae or Tahae of the Chinese, a tribe of the eastern Scythians, the Massagetae. Meds or Medi or Mand or Mind or Mandrueni or Mandueni or Mers or Moedi of Strabo (enemies of Jats) still found in the Rechna and Sindh-Sagar Doabas, were the first Indo-Scythian conquerors of the Punjab from Mandrus river to the South of the Oxus or they were Thracian Getae. The Mogas or Mogars, founder of Moga or Moog-nagar on the east bank of the Jhelam, were the Parthians, descendents of Prithu, an important section of the Sakas. Interestingly, Arjuna, the Pandava hero in the Mahabharata war, is addressed by Krishna, his charioteer friend, as Partha. Prithudaka (modern Pehowa) in the Kurukshetra region was, according to O.P. Bharadvaja (1986: 197f), the original home of Prithus or Parthas. The ancient Parthia must have owed its name to the Parthian emigrants from the eastern part of Sapta Sindhu.

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Karauli district

Kherli Ghata,

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Sheopur district

Abada, Gothra Sheopur, Radep,

References

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