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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)are associated together in the Mahabharata and Harivansa and appear to have been a pastoral people in the upper portion of the North-western Punjab represented by the Ahirs and Gwalas of the present day.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=9RXWDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y|title=Statistical, descriptive and historical account of the North-western Provinces of India|last=Atkinson|first=Edwin T.|date=1874-01-01|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref>

==Rule of 
the Konkan==
Abhira king Isvarasena of Nasik Inscription XV. was one of the Abhira conquerors of the Andhras who took from them to west Deccan.A migration of Abhiras from Ptolemy's Abiria in Upper Sindh through Sindh by sea to the Konkan and then to Nasik. Abhira rule started about 203 A.D. following the end of Yajnasri Satakarni's reign and Abhira Isvarasena's accession took place in Saka 151 or 229 A.D.Sakasena was the first Abhira king.His inscriptions from Konkan and coins from Andhra Pradesh(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]]

== References ==
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