Agi
Agi (अगि) is gotra of Jats.
Origin
Agi gotra started from a Jat named Aksha (अक्ष) in Shloka 53, who are also considered as descendants of rishi Agastya. (See - Mahabharata Shalya Parva)[1]
In Mahabharata
Mahabharata Shalya Parva mentions names of combatants armed with diverse weapons and clad in diverse kinds of robes and ornaments, All of them came to the ceremony for investing Kartikeya with the status of generalissimo. Shalya Parva in Sanskrit mentions in shloka 53, 54 Aksha along with Kanchaps, Kundus, and Jat as under:
- द्रॊण शरवाः कपिस्कन्धः काञ्चनाक्षॊ जलं धमः
- अक्षसंतर्जनॊ राजन कुनदीकस तमॊ ऽभरकृत ।। 53 ।।
History
Sumerian King List includes Dynasty of Akshak (ca. 25th – 24th century BC).
They are mentioned by Cunningham[2] in an inscription at the Buddhist Stupa of Sanchi of the Ashoka period as under: No. 17. — Sono-Devaya-parijaya Agiḍoviyadha-dānam.
Tej Ram Sharma describes some names ending in la. He mentions from Udayagiri Cave Inscription of the time of Kumaragupta I of Gupta Year 106 (=A.D. 425) a name such as Samghila, who was a soldier who has been mentioned as an 'Ashvapaty. We find Agila (Agi Jat clan), Satila (Satalya Jat clan), Nagila (Nagil Jat clan), Yakhila (Jakha Jat clan), in Sanchi inscriptions.[3][4]. Probably these indicate Jat clan names mentioned in brackets.
References
- ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudee, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998 p. 220
- ↑ The Bhilsa topes: Inscriptions, P. 237
- ↑ Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions/Names of Local Officers,p. 67
- ↑ V S Agarwal, India as Known to Panini,p.191
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