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:''This article is about the Asiagh [[gotra]], also known as Sehwag. For the batsman, click [[Virender Sehwag|here]].

'''Asiagh''' or '''Asiyag''' or '''Sihag''' or '''Sehwag''' is a [[gotra]] of [[jats]] in [[Rajasthan]], [[Haryana]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]] in [[India]]. 

They were rulers in [[jangladesh]]. Jangladesh coincided with the princely state of [[Bikaner]] in Rajasthan. The Asiagh people were inhabitants of [[Asirgarh]]. One group of them migrated to [[Europe]]. Another group moved to Jangladesh. The country [[Assyria]] derives its name from Asiaghs. The origin of word Asiagh is from [[Sanskrit]] word ‘[[Asi]]’ meaning sword. According to [[Kautilya]] the people who depended on ‘Asi’ (sword) for their living were known as Asiagh. 

According to G. [[Bongard-Levin]] and A. [[Vigasin]], [[Soviet]] studied have revealed that the migration of [[steppes]] [[tribes]] from [[Central Asia]] started in [[second century BCE]]. Excavation in [[Tajikistan]] and [[Swat (Pakistan)]] reveal the presence of [[Aryan]] culture in Central Asia at that time. Some groups of these people had lineage directly with the [[Rig Vedic]] Aryans.

The [[Saka]] [[tribes]] in [[second century BCE]] crossed [[Pamir Mountains|Pamir]] and moved to north India. They carried with them some elements of the Central Asian culture. The sword, “[[Asi]]” in [[Sanskrit]], is one of them that came to [[Taxila]].
From the above description it becomes clear that the Asiagh people were the first wave of Sakas from Central Asia.

'''Asiagh''' Jat were rulers of about 150 villages in [[Jangladesh]] when [[Rathores]] under the leadership of [[Bika]] and Kandal were spreading their rule in [[Jangladesh]] in late [[15th]] [[century]]. [[Bika]] established his capital at [[Bikaner]] in [[1488]]. Chokha Singh was their king and their capital was at Pallu town. Raotsar, Biramsar, Dandoosar and Gandeli were other famous towns in their state.
   
Chokha Singh had war with Rathores but the [[Godara]] Jats had aligned with Rathores due to which Asiaghs faced a defeat. Godaras were the most powerful among the Jat rulers of Jangladesh. Rathores had established good relations with the [[Delhi]] [[Muslim]] rulers and became powerful. The lack of harmony and coordination among other Jat rulers led to the defeat of Jat states in Jangladesh and established the Rathore Kingdom. 

==References==
*[[Thakur Deshraj]]: Jat Itihas (Hindi), [[Maharaja Suraj Mal]] Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934.
*[[James Tod]]: Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (1829)
*G. Bongard-Levin and A.Vigasin : The Image of India  -  A study of Anciant Indian Civilization in the USSR, 1984


[[Category:Gotras of Jats]]