Daritis
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Daritis was a country mentioned by Pliny[1].
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Darotiya = Daritis (Pliny.vi.25).
- Dharatwal = Daritis (Pliny.vi.25).
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions The Ariani and the adjoining Nations..... Some writers will also have it that Daritis29 forms part of Ariana, and give the length of them both as nineteen hundred and fifty miles, and the breadth one half of that30 of India. Others again have spread the Gedrusi and the Pasires over an extent of one hundred and thirty-eight miles, and place next to them the Ichthyophagi Oritæ31, a people who speak a language peculiar to themselves, and not the Indian dialect, extending over a space of two hundred miles.
29 Situate, according to Ptolemy, in the eastern parts of Media.
30 For this measurement see c. 21.
31 Meaning the "Fish-eating Mountaineers." According to Parisot they occupied the site of the modern Dulcidan, and Goadel, which are bounded by mountains, whence the name.