Majun

Majun (मजून) is a gotra of Jats.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Tawar Dagur = Tabaristan = Tapyri (Pliny.vi.18)
• Majun = Mazanderan = Tapyri (Pliny.vi.18)

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Nations situated around the Hyrcanian Sea....We then come to the nations of the Tapyri,³ the Anariaci, the Staures, and the Hyrcani, past whose shores and beyond the river Sideris⁴ the Caspian begins to take the name of the Hyrcanian Sea: on this side of that stream are also the rivers Maxeras and Strato: all of them take their rise in the Caucasian chain.

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3 According to Ansart, the district now known as Tabaristan, or Mazanderan, derives the first of those names from the Tapyri.

4 D'Anville remarks that this river still retains its "starry" name, being the modern Aster or Ester, on which Asterabad is situate.

References

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