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The '''Yaduvanshi Ahir or Yaduvanshi Aheer''' are descendants of [[Yadav|Yadu]], a legendary king of [[Chandravanshi|Chandravamsha]] lineage<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nvl1SFI1T8QC&pg=PA52|title=The Environmental Crisis of Delhi: A Political Analysis|last=Yadav|first=Sanjay|date=2011|publisher=Worldwide Books|isbn=978-81-88054-03-9|language=en}}</ref> The [[Hindu deities|Hindu deity]] [[Krishna]] is believed to be born in the Yaduvanshi Ahir branch of the [[Chandravanshi|Lunar dynasty]], They are also included in Tod's list of 36 royal races.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQIzAAAAIAAJ&q=ahir|title=Population Geography: A Journal of the Association of Population Geographers of India|date=1988|publisher=The Association|language=en}}</ref>

== Origin and history ==
The term Ahir comes from the [[Sanskrit]] word Abhira (fearless), who were once found in different parts of [[India]] and [[Nepal]] and who in several places wielded political power. The Abhiras are equated with Ahirs Gopas and Gollas, and all of them are considered [[Yadav|Yadavas]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SODZAAAAMAAJ|title=Social Movements in India: Peasant and backward classes movements|last=Rao|first=M. S. A.|date=1978|publisher=Manohar|language=en}}</ref>

Ahirs or [[Yadav|Yadavs]] are great warriors, Yaduvanshi Ahirs were in the Narayani/Yadav sena. Yadav Sena the army of Lord [[Krishna]] of [[Dwarka]] Kingdom is called as the supreme Sena of all time. It is described in the Mahabharata as being all of the Ahir caste. This proves that the Ahirs, Gopas and [[Yadav|Yadavs]] are all synonyms.⏎
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According to Srimad Bhagvat, The simple forest life of Abhiras is full of gaiety piousness and is unprejudiced, which is better than the hellish civilization of the urban places full of passionate and lusty life.

The point that the Abhira are Kshatriyas and specifically Yaduvanshi has been proved in the earlier lines. In Harivansa Purana, it has been said that Gopa and [[Yadav]] are generic of the same lineage.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wT-BAAAAMAAJ&q=Yaduvansi|title=The Cattle and the Stick: An Ethnographic Profile of the Raut of Chhattisgarh|last=Soni|first=Lok Nath|date=2000|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture|isbn=978(contracted; show full)anshi Ahirs.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?ei=H0RrTeCxFMjmrAfdyPXCCw&ct=result&id=KTEoAAAAMAAJ&dq=Jadubans+Ahirs+claim+descent+from+Rajputs&q=Yadubansi|title=Report of the Indian Statutory Commission ...|last=commission|first=Great Britain Indian statutory|date=1930|publisher=H. M. Stationery Office|language=en}}</ref>

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