- Dahiya (Jat clan)
:"For the eponymous Rajput clan, see
Dahia (Rajput clan) . For the Beirut neighborhood, seeDahieh ."Dahiya, classically called the Dimures (IPA2|dɨˈmjʊrz; _el. "Dimouroi"), is a
gotra ofjats found inRajasthan ,Haryana , Punjab andUttar Pradesh inIndia . They are solar racekshatriyas . They are descendants ofDadhichi Rishi . According toJames Tod Dahiyas had a war withAlexander the Great . At that time they were settled on the banks ofSindhu andSutlej rivers.This is a major branch ofPuru . The Dahiya clan took part in theMahabharata . At that time they were living in the Southern part ofChina . According toTodd 's Rajasthan (based upon the writings ofJustin andHerodotus ), thousands of years before Christ, the Dahiya Mahajati tribe lived on the eastern bank of the RiverSihun (Oxus ). The Heir,Bhullar andSihag sub-tribes lived in the adjoining country. The Dahiya Jats took part in the battle betweenDarius and Alexander.There is mention of Dahiyas in
Vishnu Puran . The Chinese historians mentioned them asTa-Hia .An
inscription of year999 AD, in the temple of Kevay Goddess, at village Kinsaria nearJodhpur shows that Dahiyas have originated fromDadhichi Rishi . The chronology of the rulers of Dahiya clan is as under:Dadhichi , Vimal Raja, Sivar, Kulkhat, Atar, Ajayvah, Vijayvah, Susal,Shalivahan , Narwad, Choohad, Deoraj, Gunrang, Kadavarao, Kirti Singh, Bairi Singh, Chachcha Rana.The above temple was constructed by Chachcha
Rana and inscription engraved on it on22 April 969 . The second inscription was by Rana Jagdhar in memory of his father Rana Vikram Singh and mother Naila on pillar near Matamandir dated9 June 1243 . The third inscription dated26 April 1215 was by Jayant Singh son of Param Singh Dahiya and grandson of Mahamandaleshwar Rana Karhwa Rao Dahiya at village Salana near Bharaut in Jodhpur state. The descendants of Rana Karhwa Rao are known asKarhwasra .Regarding the place of origin of Dahiyas Muhnot Nainsi has mentioned Dahiyas to be native of Thal Nergarh, Sachaur, Vali, Pali, Jaswantpur, Malani villages on the banks of Godavari near
Nasik Trimbak.Presently Dahiyas inhabit Harsare, Maroth, Parbatsar and Deravar villages in Jodhpur region. Dahiyas constructed the Jalaur fort in
princely state ofJodhpur . Majlis Singh founded Dahiyabhar village inJodhpur .They ruled over Rajgarh territory. Some Dahiya Jats who lived in Rajasthan mixed up with the
Rajput s and was therefore called Rajputs. They have 12 villages nearRupar . Some of them became coverts toIslam but were still called Rajputs, and some living in theRohtak district have been by mistake calledChauhan s by their bards.According to '
bhat s' (meaning-bards; the people/caste who keep the genealogy records ofJats ,Rajputs ), Dahiyas are descendants of one of the four son ofPrithviraj Chauhan .The writer of these lines, Rahul Dahiya, has met the bhaats and has seen their records personally. He saw , names , right from his name backtracking toPrithviraj Chauhan 's name in the bhaat records. Incidentally , the bhaats' records are considered very reliable and trusted even to solve disputes related to wealth inheritance.The 'bhaats' have carried this tradition for ages and keep on updating their records every year by visiting their patrons' homes. The bhaats further tell that Dahiyas are based in 50 villages in Haryana and another 50 in Uttar Pradesh. They arrived from Rajasthan to Haryana in/around the 12th century A.D. and thereafter scattered around in different villages in the vicinity. (Above statements can be verified by meeting the 'bhaats' in Haryana.)
There are 40 villages of Dahiyas in
Sonipat district inHaryana . Dahiyas are known as ‘Rana Dahiya Badshah’ here. Barauna kheda village of Dahiyas is the oldest one from where Dahiyas spread to other places. InRohtak /sonipat districts Sidhauli, Narabhari, Halalpur,Nahra,Nahri,Susana,Pipli, Gopalpur, Kidauli, Prahladpur, Mandaura, Mandauri, Thana, Bhadana, Sehat, Kakrai,etc villages are of Dahiya.In Uttar Pradesh Vana Jhijhokar, Bhojpur villages of
Meerut district, Lakkhuwala, Niyampur, Timirpur, Sikanderpur, Mirjapur, Jasmaura, Prithvipur villages ofBijnor district, Noonangali ofMuzaffarnagar district, Nawada ofSaharanpur district, village Rajpur near Saudhara ofAmbala district are Dahiya villages.Bhim Singh Dahiya , the Indian Historian, has established that the Indian wordDahiya or Dahia is written asTa-Hia inChinese language . Ta-Hia, orDaxia is the name given in antiquity by the Chinese to the territory ofBactria . The name Ta-Hia appears in Chinese from the3rd century BCE to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of theGreco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorerZhang Qian in126 BCE to designateBactria . They describe an important urban civilization of about one million people, living in walled cities under small city kings or magistrates. Ta-Hia was an affluent country with rich markets, trading in an incredible variety of objects, coming as far as Southern China. By the timeZhang Xian visited Ta-Hia, there were no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadicYuezhi , who were settled to the north of their territory beyond theOxus .Today's modern expression
Tajik probably originated from the Chinese wordsTa-Hia andTa-Yuan .ee also
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