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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)from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century|last=Rickmers|first=Christian Mabel|date=1972|publisher=Cosmo Publications|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5gk7AQAAMAAJ&q=Graharipu+ahir&redir_esc=y|title=Hindu Castes and Tribes of Gujarat|last=Campbell|first=James M.|date=1988|publisher=Vintage Books|language=en}}</ref>

==Abhiras (Ahirs) of Rajputana==
The Abhiras were a strong and powerful people with well-built bodies
 [80][81] and originally lived in the desert. Mahabharata (IX, 37, 1) locates the Abhiras in western Rajputana where the river Sarasvati disappears. and north eastern Sind. In Samudragupta's time (c. AD 350) the Abhiras lived in Rajputana and Malava on the western frontier of the Gupta empire. Historian Dineshchandra Sircar thinks of Abiravan between Herat[88] and Kandahar which may have been the original home of the Abhiras. Their occupation of Rajasthan also at later date is evident from the Jodhpur [91]inscription of Samvat 918, that the Abhira people of the area were a terror to their neighbours,  because of their voilent demeanour.[92][93]Abhiras of Rajputana were sturdy and regarded as Mlecchas, and carried on anti Brahmancial activities.As a result, life and property became unsafe. Pargiter points to the Pauranic tradition that the Yadavas, while retreating northwards after the Kurukshetra war from their western home in Dwarka and Gujarat, were attacked and broken up by the rude Abhiras of Rajasthan.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?ei=5oiRTf1jxqpx6OPM_Ac&ct=result&id=tZAiAAAAMAAJ&dq=abhiras+of+rajasthan&q=north+eastern+Sind+|title=Social Movements and Social Transformation: A Study of Two Backward Classes Movements in India|last=Rao|first=M. S. A.|date=1979|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-90255-4|language=en}}</ref> 

At Osian (about 52 kilometres north-west of Jodhpur) many temples with fine sculptures attract a visitor. Two sculptures particularly attract the visitors — one depicts a daughter of the Abhiras with her charming poise and attractive body.


==Rule of the Nepal==
===Gopala dynasty===
(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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