Mor (clan)

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Mor or Maur or Maurya is gotra of Jats found in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana in India.

[edit] Origin of clan

There are number of theories about the origin of surname Mor. Some people consider it after the king Mordhwaja or Moron rulers and others from Mauryas.

There was a very generous king named Mordhwaja & after his name the surname Mor is believed to be started. Some historian state that Mor clan got its name from Moron rulers. Also the people of a flat town named 'Marohi' at seacost were called Mors.^[1]

According to Dalip Singh Ahlawat, Mor surname arises from Mauryan period and those who settled here modified it over the time. ^[2]

[edit] Jat origin of Mor or Maurya clan

The Jat historian Bhim Singh Dahiya published a paper titled The Mauryas: Their Identity ^[3] in 1979 and a book titled Jats the Ancient rulers ^[4] in 1982, wherein he concludes that the Mauryas were the Muras or rather Mors and were Jats of Scythian (Saka) or Indo-Scythian origin. Jats still have Maur or Maud as one of their clan name.

The view of Bhim Singh Dahiya that the Mauryas were Jat is further supported from the fact that Khoye Maurya is clan of Jats found in Uttar Pradesh, India. The meaning of 'Khoye Maurya' in Hindi is the 'lost Maurya'. The Khoye Maurya clan is not found among the Rajputs.

Mahavamsa describes Chandragupta as coming of Kshatriya clan of Maurya:

"Mauryanam Khattyanam vamsha jata". ^[5] It means "Mauryas are Kshatriyas of Jat clan".

According to Jat historian Ram Swarup Joon ^[6]

" Mauryans being Jats, were denigrated their social status. In fact Maurya was not a caste but it was a gotra of Jats which is still found in Jats. Gupta was a title of Chandra Gupta and not the caste, as has been proved below in the history of Chandra Gupta. He was a warrior of Jat caste. There are numerous legends about the Maurya dynasty, as Ashoka of this dynasty was an ardent follower of Buddhism, writers have, in the Puranas, called it a Shudra dynasty. Mor, Maurya, Maurana are Jat gotras of very old standing. Hence the rule of this dynasty has been given a high place in history of Jats."

[edit] References

^ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudi, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Ādhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998
^ Dalip Singh Ahlawat: Jat viron ka itihas (History of Jat warriors)
^ The Mauryas: Their IdentityVishveshvaranand Indological Journal, Vol. 17 (1979), p.112-133)
^ Bhim Singh Dahiya: Jats the Ancient rulers,Dahinam Publishers, Sonipat, Haryana. 1982
^ Mahavamsa:Geiger Trans p 27.
^ Ram Swarup Joon : History of the Jats, Rohtak, India (1938, 1967)