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  1. Arachosia

    Arachosia (; Greek: Ἀραχωσία Arachōsíā), or Harauvatis (Persian:

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  1. Arachosia

    Arachosia is the Hellenized name of an ancient satrapy in the eastern part of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Greco-Bactrian, and Indo-Scythian empires. Arachosia was centred around Arghandab valley in modern-day southern Afghanistan, and extended east to as far as the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan. The main river of Arachosia was called Arachōtós, now known as the Arghandab River, a tributary of the Helmand River. The Greek term "Arachosia" corresponds to the Aryan land of Harauti which was around modern-day Helmand. The Arachosian capital or metropolis was called Alexandria or Alexandropolis and laid in what is today Kandahar in Afghanistan. The inhabitants of Arachosia were Iranian peoples, referred to as Arachosians or Arachoti. They were called Paktyans by ethnicity, and that name survives until today in the form of ethnic Pax̌tūn tribes.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arachosia in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arachosia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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  • Yaqub Ahmad Bajaj
    Yaqub Ahmad Bajaj
    Ram Saroop Joon, a pioneer Jat historian and author of "The History of Jats" writes that Aroras are the descendants of raja "Ar" son of raja "Seth" Chandra vanish. Raja "Ar" was the ruler of Afghanistan(ancient Aryana).The Greek historians mentioned Southern Afghanistan as Arachosia(modern Kandahar and Helmand river basin) and it was inhabitated by a tribe Arachoti. In fact Arachoti is a compound noun, if we decompose it carefully we find that "Ar" is for raja "Ar" and "Chot" (koat is a common word in Punjabi and Sindhi languages that is used for fort,castle, fortress),so it is deducted that Arachoti means one who hails from the fort /dwelling of "Ar". In Punjabi language when a person is referred to his native town especially a koat " I" is added to form an adjective, for example one who hails from Sialkoat he will be called Sailkoati. In Greek language "Arachoti" changed into Arachosia, means the land of "Ar" .It is proved from the above mentioned information that modern Aroras used to live in this region before the advent of proper Iranian and Gilzai/Giligi(a tribal consortium of Pushto speaking people, different from Abdalis/Durranis). I have already mentioned in my writing that Aroras came into Indo-Pak more than twenty five centuries ago from Arachosia that was their homeland,and Aror/Arorkoat/Alor (modern Rohri in Sindh Pakistan) was set up in the reminiscen of their old abode. 
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