Siyal

Sial (सियाल) Syal (स्याल) Syala (स्याल) is gotra of Jats in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan. They live in Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh.

Origin

This gotra is said to be originated from Syala (स्याल), a Yadava prince, who insulted the sage Gargya, and was the cause of his becoming the father of Kalayavana, a great foe of Krishna and the Yadava family.

History

Sir H. M. Elliot Edited by John Dowson writes while identifying The Hindu kings of Kabul that Kalar " is, we have little doubt, the Syalapati of our coins. There is less difference in sound between Syala and Kalar than would at first be imagined ; so that if our translator, Al Biruni, wrote his Arabic version from oral tradition, this slight change in the initial pronunciation of the name would be fairly probable."

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[p.422]: It is to be observed that the Jami'u-t Tawarikh and its followers omit all notice of Kalar, making Samand the immediate sucoessor of Kanak.

The Syala or Syal-pati (....? in Greek), of whom so many coins are found in Afghanistan, was probably a leader, and, perhaps, even the progenitor of the Syal Jats of Jhang Syal and other localities in the Panjab.

Villages founded by Siyal clan

• Shyalawas (श्यालावास) - village in Dausa tahsil of Dausa district, Rajasthan.
• Siyalon Ka Der (सियालों का डेर) - village in Gudha Malani Tahsil of Barmer district in Rajasthan.

In Chauhan records

The Sundha inscription (Jodhpur) V. 1319 (1267 AD) of Chachigadeva mentions the Salya (Syal), the Sangas, and the Nahras.

Dasharatha Sharma in "Early Chauhan Dynasties" [Page-176] writes about Jalor Chauhan ruler - Chachigadeva. We have eight inscriptions for Chachigadeva, the son and successor of Udayasimha. These range from V. 1319 to V.1333. The earliest is the Sundha Inscription of V. 1319 edited by Dr. Kielhorn in EI, IX. pp. 74ff. Some three years earlier however than the earliest of these (which belongs to V. 1319) is the record of a pratishtha at Jalor, dated the 6th of the bright half of Magha V. 1316. It states that Padru and Muliga put a gold cupola and gold dhvaja on the temple of Shantinatha at Suvarnagiri in the reign of Chachigadeva (Kharataragachchhapattavali. p. 51).

"Hating his enemies as thorns" states the Sundha Inscription "he destroyed the roaring Gurjara lord Virama," enjoyed the fall of the tremulous (or leaping) Patuka, deprived Sanga of his colour and acted as a thunderbolt for the mountain, the furious Nahara".

स्फूर्जद्-वीरम-गूर्जरेश-दलनो य: शत्रु-शल्यं द्विषंश्-

चञ्चत-पातुक-पातनैकरसिक: संगस्य रंगापह:

उन्माद्दन्-नहराचलस्य कुलिशाकर:.... (Verse-50)

Dasharatha Sharma writes that The "furious Nahara" of the inscription, again, is equally unidentifiable. But we know from Jat history above that नहराचल means Nehra Mountain. There is a mountain in Jhunjhunu called Nehra Pahad which in Sanskrit is called नहराचल. Thus Nehras were rulers in Vikram Samvat 1316 (1260 AD).

Distribution in Himachal Pradesh

Villages in Hamirpur, Kangra

Distribution in Madhya Pradesh

Villages in Mandsaur district

Kacharia Jat

Distribution in Rajasthan

Villages in Tonk district

Hathaki (8),

Villages in Barmer district

Siyalon Ka Der, Siyolon Ki Beri, Siyolon Ki Dhani,

Villages in Dausa district

Shyalawas,

Distribution in Punjab

Villages in Nawanshahr district

• Sal Kalan, Sal Khurd, Saloh is village in Nawanshahr tahsil in Nawanshahr district in Punjab.

Notable persons

• Heer Ranjha - The famous lovers, the girl named Heer of clan Syal and boy named Dhidho of clan Ranjha of Pakistan. (Jat Samaj:11/2013,p.23)

• Namansh Syal - Air Force Wing Commander. The 34-year-old pilot was a native of Patiyalkar village in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. The nation bid an emotional goodbye to Air Force Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who died in the Tejas jet crash at the Dubai Air Show, on Friday. Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, also an IAF officer, their six-year-old daughter and his parents. Syal did his schooling at Sainik School, Sujanpur Tira, in Hamirpur district. His father, Jagarnath Syal, too served in the Indian Army before working as a principal in the education department. Namansh Syal's parents are currently at the Sulur Air Force Station near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. His wife, who also serves in the IAF, is in Kolkata for a course. His father, Jagannath Syal, served in the Indian Army's Medical Corps and later worked in the education department, retiring as a principal. Syal was a squadron leader and was due for a promotion.

References

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