Kadiyan

Kadian is a Kshatriya gotra found in the state of Haryana and in Western Uttar Pradesh in Northern India.

Location

Kadian, Kadyan, Kadiyan are alternate spellings for a clan of the Ror community. The Kadiyan clan has three villages among the Ror. These are Katlaheri in the Nardak region, Gyana Majra in Uttar Pradesh and possibly Narkatari near Thanesar.

Origin

Kadyan is a Pali version of the Sanskrit Katyayana (Katyayan to Katyan to Kadyan). Tradition has it that Rishi Vishvamitra had many sons including two by the names of Kat and Achchil. The descendants of Kat were called Katyayan and over time it got corrupted to Kadyan. [A JSTOR article on Kanya-Kubja Brahmins who allow Katyayan gotra to eat meat because their ancestors were Kshatriya [http://www.jstor.org/view/00219118/di973645/97p0096w/3?frame=noframe&userID=[e-mail]/01c0a8346a00501d2acf2&dpi=3&config=jstor] ]

The above stated descent from Rishi Vishvamitra makes Kadian a Suryavanshi clan. This fits in with their place among the Ror, who claim descent from the solar house of Ikshvaku. This is the same Ikshvaku whose descendants include the mighty Raghu and Sri Rama of Ayodhya. In Arabic, "Kadiyan" stands for "King" and it could possibly be a memory from the times of the Akkadian empire. Subhash Kak, an Indologist and a professor at the Louisiana State University has proved that the Akkadian kings were Indic in their origin.

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