Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c6.96

c6.96

Probably they could be identified with the great Khokhar or Khokhur tribe of the Panjāb. They are found between the Jāṭs, Rājputs, Arāiṇs, and Cuḥrās. They are most numerous along the valley of Jhelum and Chenab and specially in Jhang and Shāhpur districts. They are also found, though in smaller number on the lower Indus and Satlaj, especially in Lahore, also along the foot of the hills from the Jhelum to the Satlaj. The Khokhars of Gujarāt and Siālkot have a tradition that they were at first settled at Gaṛh Kharāna of which they were dispossessed by Timūr. In Akbar's time they were the principal tribe in Dasūya Paragana in Hoshiyārpur, and they now give their name to the Khokharain to a tract which contains some fifty villages in all but three of which are in Kapūrthalā State on the border of Dasūya Tahsīl.¹²¹