[h=2]Jat Clans in Mahavansha - Jakhar Jat Clan[/h]
Hukum Singh Panwar (
Pauria) writes that The Jats of Jakhar tribe traditionally remember
Jakha or
Jakhu as their progenitor.[SUP] (
The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/An Historico-Somatometrical study bearing on the origin of the Jats, p.171,f.n.216)[/SUP]
Mahavamsa, provides a continuous historical record of over two millennia, and is considered one of the world's longest unbroken historical accounts.[SUP] (Tripāṭhī, Śrīdhara, ed. (2008). Encyclopaedia of Pali Literature: The Pali canon. 1. Anmol. p. 117.
ISBN 9788126135608.)[/SUP] It is one of the few documents containing material relating to the
Nāga and
Yakkha peoples, indigenous inhabitants of
Lanka prior to the legendary arrival of
Prince Vijaya from
Singha Pura.
Mahavansa/Chapter 1 writes that ...Now since a great sacrifice by
Kassapa of
Uruvela was near at hand, and since he saw that this latter would fain have him away, he, the victorious over enemies, went to seek alms among the
Northern Kurus ; and when he had eaten his meal at evening time near the lake
Anotatta, the Conqueror, in the ninth month of his buddhahood, at the full moon of
Phussa, himself set forth for the isle of
Lañkä, to win
Lanka for the faith. For
Lanka was known to the Conqueror as a place where his doctrine should (thereafter) shine in glory; and (he knew that) from
Lañkä, filled with the
Yakkhas, the Yakkhas must (first) be driven forth.
Mahavansa/Chapter 7 tells that ....In
Lanka, they displaced the island's original inhabitants
Yakkhas, established a kingdom and became ancestors of the modern
Sinhalas people.
Vijaya (543–505 BCE) founded the city of
Tambapanni. Here and there did
Vijaya's ministers found villages.
Anuradhagama was built by a man of that name near the
Kadamba river; the chaplain
Upatissa built
Upatissagama on the bank of the
Qambhira river, to the north of
Anuradhagama Three other ministers built, each for himself,
Ujjeni,
Uruvela, and the city of
Vijita.
Mahavansa/Chapter 10 writes ...
Pandukabhaya (437-367 BC) handed over the government to
Abhaya , his eldest uncle, for the night-time: he became the `
Nagaraguttika' (Guardian of the City). From that time onward there were
nagaraguttikas in the capital. His father-in-law also,
Girikandasiva, he did not slay but handed over to this uncle the district of
Girikanda. He had the pond' deepened and abundantly filled with water, and since he had taken water therefrom, when victories (for his consecration), they called it
Jayavapi. He settled the
Yakkha Kalavela on the east side of the city, the
Yakkha Cittaraja at the lower end of the
Abhayatank. The slave-woman who had helped him in time past and was re-born of a
Yakkhini, the thankful (king) settled at the south gate of the City. Within the royal precincth he housed the yakkhini in the form of a mare. Year by year he had sacrificial offerings made to them and to other (
Yakkhas); but on festival-days he sat with
Cittaraja beside him on a seat of equal height, and having gods and men to dance before him, the king took his pleasure, in joyous and merry wise.
