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the fourth century the Ahirs were settled in eastern
Rajputana and Malwa. Similarly, when the Kathis arrived in Gujarat in the eighth century, they found the greater part of the country in the possession of the Ahirs. The Mirzapur District of the United Provinces has a tract known as Aharura, named after the Ahir, and near Jhansi, another piece of country was called Ahirwar. The Ahirs were also kings of Nepal at the beginning of the Christian era. Khandesh and the Tapti valley were'other regions where they were kings. This indicates that the Ahirs, who rose to political prominance in the second century B.C., had a chequered political career until the fourteenth century A.D. when their importance was over shadowed by the Mughals, but even during the Mughal period the Ahir and Golla rajahs were a power to be reckoned with. The Gavlis rose to political power in Deogarh, on the Chhindwara plateau in t he Central Provinces. The Saugar traditions trace down the Gavli supremacy to a much later date, as the tracts of Etawa and Khurai are held to have been governed by the chieftains till the close of the seventeenth century.
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of the Ahirs is controversial, but there seems to be a consensus regarding the spread of the Ahirs to different parts of India and their political dominance there. Historian
Bhagwan Singh Suryavanshi (1962) produces historical evidence to show that the Ahirs were an Indian tribe who settled in the south western Rajasthan and north eastern Sind in about the first century B.C. This was the earliest settlement called Ahiradesha (Abhiradesha). The inscriptions regarding the Abhira Era (about third and fourth centuries A.D.) are to be found on the west coast in Khandesh, Konkan and Gujarat, in middle India near Saugar and toward' east at Allahalbad and Jabbulpur.
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addition to the mythical-historical pride of being the descendants of Lord
Krishna. The Yadavas often evoked this pride to drive home the responsibility placed on them in the sense of civilizational realm of thought (Marriott, 1968) not only to lift themselves up in the educational, economic and political fields but to also take up the leadership of all the backward classes, to fight for their cause: Krishna was the leader in Dwapara Tuga, and the Yadavas, his descendants should lead the society in this Kaliyuga'. The past acts as a guide to improve the present.
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Pillai (1904) derives Abhira from the Tamil word Ayir, which also means cow. He equates the Ayars with
Abhiras, and bhagwan Singh Suryavanshi treats this as evidence of migration of the Abhiras to the south in the first century A.D. Thus, linguistic evidence is used to support the argument that the Abhiras spread to different parts of India, and that they retained different but related cultural traditions. The most common denominator, as was pointed out earlier, was their descent from the Yadu dynasty and their association with cattle.
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in central India, Ahirwara, Khandesh (Yadava dynasty of
Devagiri), Nagpur and Wardha, Gwalior. Saugar, Chattisgarh, Naugawan, Rewari, Rajasthan and Bundelkhand. In northern India, the Ahirs had kingdoms in Simhapur (Punjab) and west Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal and Orissa (as Varmans), Haryana, and Nepal.
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Parmanand (1959), Rajbali
Pandeya (1968) and K. C. Yadav (1967) examining the historical evidence, also place the earliest settlement of the Ahirs in the Punjab, and their empire in western India. They also note that the Ahirs held political power in Saurashtra from ninth to fifteenth centuries a.d.,
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The
Allahabad Iron Pillar inscription of Samudragupta (fourth century A.D.) mentions the Ahirs as one of the tribal states of west and south west India, who paid homage to the emperor. A fourth century (A.D.) inscription found in Nasik speaks of an Ahir king, and there is proof that in the middle of
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There are many theories regarding their origin. Most of them link the Ahirs to a people known to the ancients as the
Abhiras, the term Ahir being a Prakrit form of the Sanskrit word Abhira, who were once found in different parts of India, and who in several places wielded political power. The origin
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The Ahirs had established kingdoms at various points in history in different parts of India. Since the Ahirs were
Abhiras, and the Ahirs were synonymous with Gopas, Gopalas and Gollas, and since all these were Yadavas, the Abhiras political power gave the Yadavas a sense of real historical pride in
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It is noted that the legends of the cowherd
Krishna and his dances with cowherdesses are mentioned in the Sangam classics. The term ayarpati (cowherd settlement) is found in Cilappatikaram. It is argued that the term Ayar has been used for the Abhiras in ancient Tamil literature, and V. Kanakasabha
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According to Some authors, the Ahirs were of Aryan descent. They wielded political power in Khandesh, Magadh, Uttar Pradesh, Malwa, Bengal, Maharashtra and Kabul. The fact that they occupied the fertile plains suitable for cultivation, residence and cattle, shows that they had not only political
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