Musawat

Musawat (मुसावत) Musavat (मुसावत) Mujavat is gotra of Jats found in Madhya Pradesh.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Musawat = Mossyni (Pliny.vi.4)
• Musawat = Muza (Pliny.vi.26)

• Muza and Musa was an important emporion on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea at the Arabia Felix near the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb in modern Yemen. Now it is inland from the modern port city of Mokha.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions The region of Themiscyra, and the nations therein...We find here the nations of the Genetæ⁷ the Chalybes⁸, the town of Cotyorum⁹, the nations of the Tibareni and the Mossyni, who make marks upon their bodies,....

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7 Strabo speaks of a promontory called Genetes; and Stephanus Byzantinus mentions a river and port of the same name.

8 Strabo places the Chaldei, who, he says, were originally called Chalybes, in that part of the country which lies above Pharnacia (the modern Kerasunt).

9 Or Cotyora. According to Xenophon, this was a colony of Sinope, which furnished supplies for the Ten Thousand in their retreat. The place was on a bay called after the town. Hamilton, in his Researches, &c., Vol. i., is of opinion that Cotyorum may have stood on the site of Ordou, where some remains of an ancient port, cut out of the solid rock, are still visible. He remarks, however, that some writers suppose that Cotvora was the modern bay of Pershembah, which is more sheltered than Ordou. Cotyora was the place of embarkation of the Ten Thousand.

History

Musawat Jats were in Bharatpur,Rajasthan from where they moved to Guna in MP about two centuries back and founded Jat Mohalla in Guna and settled there. There are about 20 families living in Guna. Some families moved to Indore where at present live 10 families.

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Guna district

Musavat (मुसावत) Jats live in villages: Guna (20),

Villages in Indore district

Musavat (मुसावत) Jats live in villages: Indore (10),

Notable persons

• Bhanwar Singh Jat (Musawat) - Indore, Mob:9826420121

References

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