Datyane is a village in the Niphad

Niphad

Niphad is the name of a town, and of the taluka headquartered there, in the Nashik District of Maharashtra, India. The Marathi name signifies a place without mountains; indeed, the taluka's topography is fairly level with hardly even any hills....

 taluka, Nashik district

Nashik district

Nashik district, also known as Nasik district, is a district in Maharashtra, India. The city of Nashik is the administrative headquarters of the district.-Geography:Nashik district has an area of 15,530 square kilometres...

 of Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

India

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, situated on the river Banganga and on the Ozar

Ozar

Ozar is a census town in Nashik District in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Demographics: India census, Ozar had a population of 45,770. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Ozar has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is...

-Kasabe Sukena connecting road. It shares borders with Narayangaon

Narayangaon

Narayangaon ,is a town in the Pune district of Maharashtra state, India.Narayangaon is one of the important towns in Junnar Taluka , popular for its natural beauty...

 (Kherawadi) to the south, Shirasgaon to the north, Dixi and Ozar to the west and Owne and Theragaon to the east.

Economy

The population of this farming community is slightly over 3000. The village itself has 1,285 people (Male: 679, Female: 606). Major crops include grapes, sugarcane, onions, vegetables, wheat, jwar, bajra, ground nuts, and pulses, and villagers work in other vinyards in the area. Water is plentiful: farmers have access to irrigation supported by Kolhapur-type bunds and wells and the Gangapur, Maharashtra

Gangapur, Maharashtra

Gangapur is a city and a municipal council in Aurangabad district in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Geography:Gangapur is located on west side of Aurangabad-Ahmednagar Highway, 38 km from Aurangabad. Gangapur is Taluka place in Historical District Aurangabad...

 left canal. A few of the larger farmers also use irrigation siphons. The village is near both of the taluka's sugar factories and the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

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 plant in Ozar.

Schools are the Gram Panchayat

Gram panchayat

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 primary school and the Maratha Vidyaprasarak Samaj high school.

Possible origin of name

There is a local belief that the names of Datyane and Jiwhale (on the opposite bank of the river) come from the age of Ramayana

Ramayana

The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...

. At the time of Ramayana, when the god Ram killed the demon Marich the teeth of the Marich fell on one side of the Banganga river and the tongue fell on the other side. In Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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 teeth is 'Dant' and tongue is 'Jiwha'. These became 'Daat' and 'Jibha' in Marathi

Marathi language

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. 'Datyane' may be derived from Dant (Daat) and Jiwhale may come from Jiwha (Jibha).