Panda

Panda

(No other name)

Location  : Multan

Country  : Pakistan

Languages :

Religion  : Islam

Panda (पंडा) is a Jat clan found in Multan, Pakistan.

Origin

Panda may have been originated from ancestor Pandaka mentioned in Mahavansa/Chapter 12, who was first to be converted to Buddhism.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Panda = Panda (Pliny.vi.18)

Pandaki village

• पंडकी (जाट गोत्र - पंडा) : पंडकी नाम का गाँव झारखंड के पश्चिमी सिंहभूम जिले की मझगांव विकास-खंड में है।

History

Khak (खक), Jat clan is found in Kabirwala tahsil, Multan district, and reputed to be one of the four most ancient tribes in that tract, the other three being the Panda, Pahor and Sahu.

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H.A. Rose describes Migration of Jats: If the history of the various tribes in Multan be investigated it will be found that there is scarcely a single important tribe now found in the District which has not immigrated within the last 500 or 600 years. The whole population in Multan has for many centuries been in a state of constant flux, and it is of very little use trying to discover who the original inhabitants were even in the pre-Muhammadan times The Khaks, Pandas, Pahors and Sahus in Kabirwala tahsil, the Dhudhis in Mailsi, and the Kharas, north of Multan, are reputed vaguely to have been converted to Islam in the Multan district during the 13th century, but the traditions cannot be trusted. When the Ain-i-Akbari was compiled the Sahus, Sandas, Marrals, Tahims, Ghallus, Channars, Joiyas, Utheras and Khichis were settled in or near their present seats, and tradition assigns many tribal immigrations to Akbar's time.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Nations situated around the Hyrcanian Sea... Beyond it are the Sogdiani,²⁴ the town of Panda, and, at the very extremity of their territory, Alexandria,²⁵ founded by Alexander the Great. At this spot are the altars which were raised by Hercules and Father Liber, as also by Cyrus, Semiramis, and Alexander; for the expeditions of all these conquerors stopped short at this region, bounded as it is by the river Jaxartes, by the Scythians known as the Silis, and by Alexander and his officers supposed to have been the Tanais. This river was crossed by Demodamas, a general of kings Seleucus and Antiochus, and whose account more particularly we have here followed. He also consecrated certain altars here to Apollo Didymæus.²⁶

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24 D'Anville says that there is still the valley of Al Sogd, in Tartary, beyond the Oxus. The district called Sogdiana was probably composed of parts of modern Turkistan and Bokhara. The site of Panda does not appear to be known.

25 It was built on the Jaxartes, to mark the furthest point reached by Alexander in his Scythian expedition. It has been suggested that the modern Kokend may possibly occupy its site.

26 The "twin," of the same birth with Diana.

In Mahavansa

Mahavansa/Chapter 12 tells that ....When the thera Moggaliputta had brought the third council to an end and when he had beheld the founding of the religion in adjacent countries then he sent forth theras, one here and one there.

The thera Majjhantika he sent to Kasmira and Gandhara.

At that time in Kasmira and Gandhära did the Naga-king of wondrous power reined....the thera preached the doctrine, and thereupon the naga-king came unto the (three) refuges and the precepts of duty, and this likewise did eighty-four thousand Nagas and many Gandhabbas, Yakkhas and Kumbhandakas in the Himalaya.

But a Yakkha named Pandaka with (his wife) the Yakkhini Harita and his five hundred sons obtained the first fruit (of sanctification).

References

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