Jadi Rana or Jadav Rana is a figure from the Qissa-i Sanjan, an epic poem completed in 1599, which is an account of the flight of some of the Zoroastrians who were subject to religious persecution following the fall of the Sassanid Empire, and of their early years in India, where they found refuge.

Sanjan is an ancient city on the southern edge of the Kara-kum Desert, in the vicinity of the historically eminent oasis-city of Merv.

Together with Merv, Sanjan was an important stopping place and center of trade on the southern route of the Silk road.

His ancestors hailed from the ancient Iranian city of Sanjan in Khorasan ( located in present day Turkmenistan ).

Sanjan must not be confused with the phonetically similar Iranian province Zanjan, or its capital, the city of Zanjan.

* Sanjan ( Khorasan ), a historic city in present-day Turkmenistan

Those Zoroastrians, whose descendants are today known as the Parsis, are thought to have named the settlement after Sanjan in Greater Khorasan, the city of their origin.

Although originally a Zoroastrian city, Sanjan was captured by Mahmud Begada in the 1480s.

* Samur Sanjan, a village in Iran's Kordestan province

The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is :"( Shaykh ) Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of Javaad the son of Pirooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjani ( Piruz Shah Zarin Kolah the Kurd of Sanjan )" similar to the ancestry of Sheykh Safi al-Din's father in law, Sheikh Zahed Gilani, who also hailed from Sanjan, in Greater Khorassan.

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The site has also yielded the first definitive proof of Parsi ( Zoroastrian ) occupation at Sanjan in the form of a dokhma or Tower of Silence ( a uniquely Zoroastrian mortuary structure ).

Later, Sanjan became part of the Portuguese Northern Provinces until it was liberated by the Marathas under Chimnaji Appa in his campaign against the Portuguese ( 1733 – 39 ).

Later Hindus did not view such a marriage with favour and some censure of the act is found in the Sanjan Copper Plate Inscription of Rashtrakuta ruler Amoghavarsha I ( r. 814-878 CE ) and in the Sangali and Cambay Plates of the Govinda IV ( r. 930-936 CE ).

In 1843 he translated the Persian Kessahi Sanjan, or History of the Arrival of the Parsees in India ; and he wrote a Life of Zoroaster, a Sindhi vocabulary, and various papers in the transactions of the Bombay Asiatic Society.

Back in 1866, the administrative sub-divisions of Thana were reorganised and renamed: Sanjan as Dahanu, Kolvan as Shahapur and Nasrapur as Karjat.

Topographically, Sanjan is located in the Greater Khorasan region of Central Asia.

Politically, Sanjan is in the present-day Mary Province of Turkmenistan.

As a site in the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, Sanjan is subject to the hypothesis that the Indo-Iranians, a major branch that split off from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, originated there.

In 1924, Rakhaldas Banerjee supplemented it by the information found from a verse of the Sanjan copper plate inscription of Amoghavarsha I dated 1924 and a brief remark made by Banabhatta in his Harshacharita, which was illucidated by the commentator Shankararya.

A. S. Altekar, on the basis of the evidences from the fragments of the Devichandragupta, copper plate inscriptions of Rashtrakuta kings Amoghavarsha I and Govinda IV from Sanjan, Khambhat and Sangli, brief reference of Banabhatta, a stray verse quoted by Rajashekhara in his Kavyamimamsa and the narrative of Rawwal and Barkamaris found in a Persian text, Mujmal-ut-Tawarikh ( which is a translation of an Arabic work by Abu-al Hasan Ali, which in turn is a translation of an unknown Sanskrit work ), concluded that Ramagupta mentioned in the traditional accounts really existed.

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Sanjan is the second railway station in Gujarat ( the first station is Umbergaon ) on the Western railways ( formerly the BB & CI Railways ) just inside the Gujarat-Maharashtra border.

Sanjan is in the Umargam taluka of Valsad district.

Sanjan Bundar, the original settlement before the rail-head, is situated 2 km to the north of the railway station and is today a part of the extended town of Sanjan.

Sanjan is approximately 17 kilometres from the town of Daman, which was a Portuguese colony and an important trading station till 1961.

Sanjan is believed to have been founded by Zoroastrian refugees who sought asylum in Gujarat c. 936.

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