| TANGAN Tangan are mentioned as people and a country in Mahabharat, who dwelt by the side of the river Sailoda flowing between the mountains of Meru and Mandara. Tangan republic was located in Bhot area east of Kullu-Kangra.
Variants
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Jat
History :
Thakur Deshraj writes that In the Rajakul Jats, Parihars are found in districts of Agra and Mathura. He considers Parihar Gotra in Jats to be based on title and rejects their foreign origin theory propagated by historians like D R Bhandarkar and V A Smith. During Mount Abu mahayagya of of creation of Agnikula Kshatriya some gotras who joined them became Rajput Parihars and those remained out of it were Jat Parihars and Gujar Parihars. Thakur Deshraj considers their origin in The Mahabharat Tribe called ParaTangan, rulers near Manasarowar in Himalayas, as these were the people on gate way of India near China border. Their neighbours were Tangan people who are still found amongst Jats in Jaipur and Bharatpur districts in Rajasthan and in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh in the form of Tangar Jat clan.
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Mahabharat :
Sabha Parv, Mahabharat / Book II Chapter 48 describes Kings who presented tributes to Yudhishthir. Tangan mentioned in Mahabharat (II.48.3). They that dwell by the side of the river Sailod flowing between the mountains of Meru and Mandar and enjoy the delicious shade of tops of the Kichak Venu (bamboo) viz., the Khashs, Ekasans, the Arhs, the Pradars, the Dirghvenus, the Pashupashs, the Kuninds, the Tangans, and the ParaTangans, brought as tribute heaps of gold.
Vana Parv, Mahabharat / Book III Chapter 48 describes Rajasuya Yagya of Yudhisthir attended by the chiefs of many islands and countries. Tangan are mentioned in Mahabharat (III.48.21). I saw all kings, even those of the Vangs and Angs and Paundrs and Odras and Cholas and Dravids and Andhaks and the chiefs of many islands and countries on the sea-board as also of frontier states, including the rulers of the Sinhals, the barbaras, the Malechs, the natives of Lanka, and all the kings of the West by hundreds, and all the chiefs of the sea-coast, and the kings of the Pahlavs and the Darads and the various tribes of the Kirats and Yavans and Sakras and the Harahuns and Chinas and Tukhars and the Saindhavs and the Jaguds and the Ramaths and the Mundas and the inhabitants of the kingdom of women and the Tangans and the Kekayas and the Malavas and the inhabitants of Kashmir, afraid of the prowess of your weapons, present in obedience to your invitation, performing various offices.
Bhisma Parv, Mahabharat / Book VI Chapter 10 describes geography and provinces of Bharatvarsh. Tangan province is listed in the other kingdoms in Mahabharat (VI.10.63). The Rishiks, the Vidarbhs, the Kantiks, the Tangans, and the Para Tangans.
Bhishma Parv, Mahabharat / Book VI Chapter 46 mentions that Krishna, Yudhisthir and his brothers look for arrangements of the war. Tangan is mentioned in Mahabharat (VI.46.49). And king Drupad, surrounded by a large number of troops, became the head (of that array). And the two kings Kuntibhoj and Saivya became its two eyes. And the ruler of the Dasharns, and the Prayags, with the Dasheraks, and the Anupaks, and the Kirats were placed in its neck, O bull of Bharat's race. And Yudhishthir, O king, with the Patachchars, the Huns, the Pauravks and the Nishads, became its two wings, so also the Pisachs, with the Kundivishs, and the Mandaks, Madak, Kadak and Tangans other Tangans, Balhikas, Tittiras, and Cholas Pandya.
Karna Parv / Mahabharat Book VIII Chapter 51 describes terrible massacre and warriors who were killed on seventeenth day of War: [[Tangans are mentioned in Mahabharat (VIII.51.18). Of terrible deeds and exceedingly fierce, the Tukhars, the Yavans, the Khas, the Darvabhisars, the Darads, the Shakas, the Ramathas, the Tangans.
Tangans have been mentioned in Mahabharat in Kurukshetra War Day-2 fighting for Pandavs.
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