Tribe · Sayyid lineage

Wardak

وردګ

The Wardak live in the Wardak country near Ghazni. The Makhzan-i Afghani names Vardak among the seven sons of Kodai and also traces the Wardak to Sayyid Muhammad Gisudaraz by a Karlanri wife, listing them among the Sayyids numbered with the Pathans.

Other branches of Kodai

Utman Khel
Dilazak
Orakzai
Afridi
Khattak
Mangal
Khugiani (Karlanri)
Honai

Sources

Makhzan-i Afghani, tr. Dorn, Part II pp. 54, 56
Khulasat al-Ansab, quoted in Dorn, Part II annotations p. 131
Longworth Dames, in Rose's Glossary, vol. III p. 224
Bellew, An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan (1891), p. 90

The genealogy follows the Makhzan-i Afghani and the Khulasat al-Ansab, as Caroe tabulates them. It records tradition: where sources place a tribe differently, the note above says so.

Tribe · Sayyid lineage

Wardak

وردګ

Other branches of Kodai

Utman Khel
Dilazak
Orakzai
Afridi
Khattak
Mangal
Khugiani (Karlanri)
Honai

Sources

Makhzan-i Afghani, tr. Dorn, Part II pp. 54, 56
Khulasat al-Ansab, quoted in Dorn, Part II annotations p. 131
Longworth Dames, in Rose's Glossary, vol. III p. 224
Bellew, An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan (1891), p. 90

The genealogy follows the Makhzan-i Afghani and the Khulasat al-Ansab, as Caroe tabulates them. It records tradition: where sources place a tribe differently, the note above says so.