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[[File:Krishna as Envoy.jpg|thumb|Ahir<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voLXAAAAMAAJ&q=abhira+krishna|title=Jainism: Art, Architecture, Literature & Philosophy|last1=Rangarajan|first1=Haripriya|last2=Kamalakar|first2=G.|last3=Reddy|first3=A. K. V. S.|date=2001|publisher=Sharada Publishing House|isbn=978-81-85616-77-3|language=en}}</ref> god Krishna as envoy to the Kaurava court before Kurukshetra war. Yadava Satyaki takes out his sword when the Kauravas, raise their (contracted; show full)r=Printed at the Government Central Press|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Me53AAAAIAAJ&q=great+abhiras&dq=great+abhiras&hl=en&ei=3ymQTeabHImmcKyBvY0K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg|title=Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha|last=Vidyapeetha|first=Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit|date=1999|publisher=Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha|language=en}}</ref>


==Rule of Gujarat==
Abhiras lived in the desert;but later they gradually pushed towards the south,In the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D.;Aberia or the abhira country lay not far from Saurastra. Abiria of Abhira country was ruled over by western Kshatrapas to Saka rulers of western India,who seem to have held sway over the whole realm of Indo-Scythians of the Greek reographer Ptolomy (cf.E.I.VIII pp.36.ff). It is the south-eastern portion of Gujarat near the mouth of the river Narmada.According to some scholors,it is the Abiria of the Greeks.

It was lying to the east of the Indus above the insular portion formed by its bifurcation Abiria is Ophir (Mc Crindle.Ancient India as described by Ptolomy.pp.139-140). Later epigraphic evidences places the Abhira country in the west but the Puranas seem to locate it in the north.(Vide Law; Stu. Pt. IV.p.56)

According to Mahabharatha (II ch.31) the abhiras lived near the seashore and on the bank of the Saraswati,a river near Somnath in Gujarat.⏎
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== Rule of the Junagadh ==
The Chudasama dynasty, originally of Abhira (Ahir) clan from [[Sindh|Sind]] wielded great influence around [[Junagadh]] from the 875 A.D. onwards when they consolidated themselves at Vanthali (ancient Vamanasthali) close to Girnar under their - King Ra Chuda.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=2eIcAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y|title=Junagadh|last=Rajan|first=K. V. Soundara|date=1985|publisher=Archaeological Survey of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>(contracted; show full)last=Bhāravi|date=1972|publisher=Ratna Pustak Bhandar|language=en}}</ref>  according to Amarakosha the wife of Abhira is called Abhiri. Althoughgh chronicles like Gopālarāja-vamsāvalīand chronicle of Kirkpatrick mentions Abhira-Gupta family as Ahirs.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49850|title=A Account Of The Kingdom Of Nepaul|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Colonel|date=1811}}</ref>

==Related pages==
*[[Yadav]]

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