Sapedia

Sapedia (सापेडि़या) Sapediya (सापेडि़या) Saperia (सापेड़िया) Sapheria (सफेड़िया) Saphedia (सफेड़िया) Safedia (सफेड़िया) Jats live in Nimach and Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh and Chittorgarh, Tonk, Jaipur districts in Rajasthan.

Origin

They are of Nagavansh origin as Sap (Snake) means Naga.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Sapedia = Sape (Pliny.vi.35)

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Saperia = Sapæi (Pliny.vi.7)
• Saperia = Spalei (Pliny.vi.7)

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Lake Mieotis and the adjoining nations....Others again represent the Ocharius as running through the Cantici and the Sapæi, and the Tanais as passing through the territories of the Sarcharcei, the Herticei, the Spondolici, the Synhietæ, the Anasi, the Issi, the Catetæ, the Tagoræ, the Caroni, the Neripi, the Agandei, the Mandarei, the Satarchei, and the Spalei.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Ethiopia.... Aristocreon informs us that on the Libyan side, at a distance of five days' journey from Meroë, is the town of Tolles, and then at a further distance of twelve days' journey, Esar, a town founded by the Egyptians who fled from Psammetichus²³; he states also that they dwelt there for a period of three hundred years, and that opposite, on the Arabian side, there is a town of theirs called Daron.²⁴ The town, however, which he calls Esar, is by Bion called Sape, who says that the name means "the strangers:" their capital being Sembobitis, situate on an island, and a third place of theirs, Sinat in Arabia.

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23 Who is mentioned again in B. xxxvi. c. 19.

24 Ptolemy, however, speaks of Esar and Daron as the names of towns situate on the island of Meroë.

Sapada village

• सपड़ा (जाट गोत्र - सापेड़िया) : सपड़ा नाम का गाँव झारखंड के सराइकेला खरसावाँ जिले की ईचागढ़ विकास-खंड में है।

History

They are said to have migrated to this area from Rajasthan about 200 years back. Their place of migration is from near Mawli town in Chittorgarh district in Rajasthan.

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Mandsaur district

Ralayta (Multanpura),

Villages in Nimach district

Nimach, Fatehnagar, Pipalyavyas,

Villages in Ratlam district

Ratlam,

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Chittorgarh district

Kesunda

Villages in Jaipur district

Saphedia (सफेड़िया) Jats live in villages:

Rupbas Kadeda (5),

Sapedia (सापेड़िया) Jats live in villages:

Mohanpura Rajawatan, Rupbas Kadeda (3),

Villages in Tonk district

Bhairupura Lawa Kalyanpura Bagdi,

Villages in Udaipur district

Badgaon Bandh (125), Khempur (20), Ranted (3),

Notable Persons

• Balraj Sapedia, Plot No. 590, Scheme No. 36 A, Nimach, Madhya Pradesh. PIN-458441, Phone-07423-222795
• Pariwarik Parichay Patrika - 2003, Published by Jila Jat Samaj, Nimach (M.P.)
• Pushkar Jatt Sapediya - From Badgaon Bandh (Sapediya Chowk), Mavli, Phone No. - 08290375040

References

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