Molla

Molla (मोल्ला) Mola (मोला) gotra Jats live in Nimach, Mandsaur, Ratlam districts in Madhya Pradesh.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Mola = Molum (Pliny.vi.35)

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."

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Nimach district

Molla (मोल्ला) gotra Jats live in Nimach district in villages: Khadawda (5),

Villages in Mandsaur district

Mola (मोला) gotra Jats live in Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh in the villages: Betikheri, Laduna (Sitamau), Ralayta (Multanpura), Ranayra (Sitamau),

Villages in Ratlam district

Villages in Ratlam district with population of Mola (मोला) gotra are:

Kanser 1,

References

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