Agre
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Agre (अग्रे) or Aga (अगा) or Hanga (हंगा) is clan or gotra of Jats found in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan in India. This clan has descended from Hagamasha who was a satrap of Mathura appointed by the Kushan ruler Kanishka. Hangamas was a General of the Kushan, Yuechi or Tushara kings. Hanga is very well known in history. He belonged to Tushar or Kaswan dynasty and was appointed as the Governor of Mathura. His descendants came to be called Hanga. They have about eighty villages in district of Mathura.Huang is a common surname in China
According to Thakur Deshraj the Shivi gotra Jats of Shivaliks and lower reaches of Lake Manasarowar left this area after the war of Mahabharata and migrated to Uttar Kuru. Some of them settled in Punjab in the area known as 'Yadu ki Dung', some settled in Kashmir and the rest moved far north up to Siberia.
The Krishna vanshi people in Sanskrit were called 'Karshney' and 'Karshniya'. Karshniya or Kasaniya is a gotra of Jats found in Rajasthan. These Krishna vanshi people in China were known as Kushan or Yuezhi.
Bhim Singh Dahiya has established that Kushan or Yuezhi were Jats. There were two branches of Yuezhi people. One of the branches was called 'Ta-Yuezhi' which means 'The great Jats'. The other branch was 'Siao-Yuezhi' which means 'The little Jats'. The Greek historian Herodotus has written Massagetae for Ta-Yuezhi and Thyssagetae for Siao-Yuezhi. The Yuezhi people inhabited the Outer Mongolia and Gansu province of China.
Satyaketu Vidyalankar has mentioned that Rishika Jats were inhabitants of western China region near Lopnar Lake. Tocharian people were settled in between the areas of Sakas and Rishikas (Yuezhi) in the north of Tarim River and 'Tianshan' hills. Huns inhabited areas to the north of those occupied by Sakas, Rishikas and Tocharians. Rishikas and Tocharians were allies. They attacked the kingdom of Sakas and captured Bactria (Balkh). Following the settlement of the Yuezhi (described in the West as "Tocharians"), the general area of Bactria came to be called Tokharistan. From the first century to the third century, Tokharistan was under the rule of the Kushans. After that they occupied Camboj situated in northwest Afghanistan.
Rishikas and Tocharians who were earlier defeated by Huns became powerful now. They jointly defeated the Huns and forced them to move towards Mongolia.
Rishikas and Tocharians along with Ta-Yuezhi Jats became Muslims in this region. Later when the pressure of Muslim religion increased these people moved down to Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Ta-Yuezhi branch included Rishikas, Tocharians, Kushans, Chahars, Jadons, Sinsinwars, Kuntals, Sogdians gotra Jats. Tocharians and Rishikas were great warriors and they became strong followers of Buddhism. They also helped in spreading the Buddhism religion to far off places.
A branch of Tocharians was Hanga who came to Brij area in India and settled on the fertile banks of Yamuna River. Hunga Jats are believed to get their name from Hangamas satrap who came from the region of 'Huang He' river and 'hingu' hills in China. The Hunga over a period became 'Aga'. Aga in Sanskrit became 'Agre' meaning advance, since these were the people first to come to Brij area. Kanishka had made the Hunga people the rulers of Mathura. Another branch of Tocharians moved to Afghanistan and up to Iran. Kanishka made these people the rulers of Ghazni.
[edit] References
- Bhim Singh Dahiya: Aryan Tribes and the Rig Veda, Dahinam Publishers, Haryana, India,1991
- Bhim Singh Dahiya: Jats the Ancient Rulers, Dahinam Publishers
- Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934.
- Jat Viron Ka Itihas (Hindi): Capt Dalip Singh Ahlawat
- Ram Swarup Joon: History of the Jats, Rohtak, India (1938, 1967)
- Jat Samaj: Agra, January 1992
