The origin of the name Jadon from lunar race ancient Yadavas Rajputs ---

The origin of the name Jadon from Lunar Race ancient Yadavas  Rajputs---

The word Jadon ,is traced by  Sir Henry Elliot to Yadu or Yadava , but it would perhaps be more correct to say that Jadon ,Jadu ,Jadava ,and Yadava are etymologically the same,the former being corruptions of the last. Dr Hornle has pointed out ,Jadon might be simply a corruption of Jadava as Badon is for Badava.The word Jadava was no longer current in vernacular speech and had been superseded by the hindi Jadu (Badu).which by itself would not admit of expansion in to Jadon (Badon).

Ancient Yadus /Yadavas (Sanskrit ) means in Hindi  is Jadus /Jadon.The modern Bhatis ,Jadons and Jadejah are the real yadus or Yadava clan of Lunar race kshatriyas .
According to Vasistha,the priest of Raja Sudas in his prayers to Indra says( Rv.VII, 19 , 8.) that  the Yadava and Turvasa evidently means the distant descendants of Yadu and Turvasu  of Lunar race kshatriy kings , sons of Maharaja Yayati and his wife Devayani respectively , for the word Yadava is admittedly a Vedic patronymic derived from Yadu , and the word Turvasa is a derivative of the Vedic word Turvas , {Turvas being the Vedic form which stands for the Puranic form Turvasu ; the form Turvasu also is some times used in the Rgveda} .same is in case of Yadava and Yadu .Lines other than those preserved in the Puranas existed , as each king was the father , not of one son only ,but of many sons ;in this way the Yadus and Turvasus multiplied into Tribes.The chiefs of these  tribes  were titled as Yadavas and Turvasa respectively.
Mahabharata says (Kumb MBh I ,79 ,42)
"It has been remembered that the Yavanas and Yadavas were the descendants of theTurvasu and Yadu ,the sons of Yayati Nahusa ." The Philologists declare that the "Y "in 'Yavana or Yadava ' may be replaced by "J" ; that is both the form "Yavana " and "Javana" , same as in" Yadava and Jadava " are permissible and therefore the interchangeable.Javana even in later Sanskrit literature "one who possesses speed " .Now the word Turvas also means "one who runs fast " ; so that both the words Turvas and Javanas means same .Just as the Yadavas mean the descendants of Yadu   .So the Yavanas --the Javanas mean the descendants of Yavana (Turvasu ) .

Ancestors of Jadons

(Sanskrit  Yadava ). A sept of Rajputs  who claim
their descent and name from Yadu, son of Yayati , the fifth monarch of the Lunar dynasty. Colonel Tod calls them" the most illustrious of all the tribes of Ind "; but in the Panjab their name has heen overshadowed by the Bhatti, the title of their dominant branch in morlern times. "The only Hindu descendants of the Yaduvanshi at the present day are the Jadons of the small state of Karauli to the west ot the Chamhal and at Sahalgarh or Jadonvati in the Gwalior territory east of that river; but the Musalmans of acknowledged Jadon descent form a very large portion of the population of Eastern
Rajputana , from Sohna and Alwar on the west to the Chambal on
the east, and from the banks of the Jamuna to Karauli and Sabalgarh on the south. These Jadon Musalmans are known as Khanzadas  and Meos . The Yaduvansi  claim descent from Krishna. The first
historical name is Dharma Pala, 77th in descent from Krishna.
His title Pala has come down to the present Karauli Rajas. His
date is about  800 A.D. His capital was Bayana, from which his
descendants were driven out by Muhammad  Ghori and Kutb-ud-din Aibak who took Bayana and  Tahangarh in 1196 A.D. After this the Jadon Raja retired to Karauli and thence across the Jamuna to Sahalgarh, but eyentually returned to Karauli .
The tribe  in United Provinces is now represented by the senior  Families of Umargarh ,Narkhi , Okhara , Jondhari and Neemkhera and   Raja of Kotla and
Awa in Pargana Firozabad and  Jalesar of the Agra and Etah district in that time .The family in Jewar  of Bulandshahr
are known as Chhokarzada . 
The Baresir of Agra, are said to haye been given this title, which
corresponds  to Bahadur, by Akbar for their services  at the siege of
Chithod . They claim descent from Raja Tindpal of Bayana. The
Jasawat are another branch of immigrants to Agra from Jaisalmer and Jaipur.Several of the Jat tribes like Sinsinwars of Bharatpur State ,Haga and Thakurele of Mahavan ,Sadabad ,Chhata ,Iglas and Khair tahsils in Mathura and Aligarh districts.

State and District-wise distribution of Jadon Clan -

1-Rajasthan State---

Karauli ,Bharatpur ,Alwar ,Dholpur and some areas in Bhilwara, Udaipur ,Rajsamand , Baran ,Kota and Bundi.
2-Uttar Pradesh State---

Mathura ,Aligarh ,Agra ,Etah ,Hathras ,Firozabad , Bulandshahr ,Hapur ,Kasganj ,Kanpur ,Etawa ,Banda ,Hamirpur ,Mahoba , Kaushambi , Auraiya , Jalaun and Jhansi.

3-Madhaya Pradesh --
Muraina (Sabalgarh and Sumawali area ) ,Sheopur ,Gwalior , Guna ,Ashok Nagar ,Vidisha ,Raysain , Bhind , and Hoshangabad .

4-Bihar State--
Bhagalpur ,Banka ,Munger ,Purniya , Sultangunj and Jamui

Jadon Rajput's old  Estates---

Rajasthan --

Princly State -Karauli , having 37 Kotris including  Hadoti ,Amargarh ,Inaiti ,Raontra , Bartun  and Fatehpur are principal .
Sir-Mathura , Rijhouni , Bilouni .

Madhya Pradesh--

Kathaun . Kathiwada , Palpur ,Bijaipur ,Naugon ,Datana and Gobar Gaondi .

Uttar Pradesh---

Umargarh ,Okhara ,Narkhi , Jondhari ,Kheda Neem /Mudasama , Pariha-Kotla ,Awa (Awagarh ) , Ghagpur , Somana ,Birpura , Gabhana ,Kora-Rustampur , Ashrafpur Jalal ,Panchon , Baranadi ,Manrauli , Husayan , Mendu , Daryapur and Hathras.

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Author-Dr Dhirendra Singh Jadaun
Village-Larhota near Sasni
District-Hatharas ,U.P.
Associate Prof in Agric.
Sahid Captain Ripudaman Singh Govt.College , Sawaimadhopur ,Raj.
322001.