Ahir Yadava Connection Hi to all It is sad to see so much of talk page wasted on a single point People don t understand the problem and people have also failed to communicate the problem to users who are just schoolboys Many of them are simply not aware that prior to being named yadav they were registered as Ahir in british census so instead of bringing yadava rulers of the past they need to show Ahir Yadava connection Here is MSA Rao s statement on the subject Historical Semihistorical Evidences are available for equating Ahir with Yadava Boys you will do a great job if you just google all the stuffs I had added in Ahir as Yadava section One important observation in this regard is All historical yadavas found till date has been traced to abhira ancestry historical Yadavas story bigins with Trikuta 800AD who were Abhira There is a very long gap between Yadavas of mythical era and those historians have traced so this would always be a matter of debate and this has nothing to do with the arrival date of Abhira because most of Hindu scriptures including Mahabharata has been written between 6th and 8th century AD and are suspected to be backward projection One important fact regarding Yadavas is that though it means descent from Yadu actually it means claiming Krishna lineage Cult of krishna has no eveidence of existence before the beginning of the Christian era so dynasties had actually two kinds of claim one from Krishna the God of Abhira and another from Krishna the hero of Mahabharata Again those who have adopted Krishna of Mahabharata did so only after it was written These people are suspected to have styled on that line There are Scholars Check Rusell B V who believe Krishna of mahabharata is actually a cunning cruft of Brahmanas and episodes related to him in Mahabharata are actually later days interpolations done after stealing the god and philosophy of abhira tribe No Blast