The Abhiras (Ahirs) is an agricultural and pastoral community of Indian subcontinen who call themselves Yadavas and the notion that Krishna was an Abhira.[1] The Abhiras often mentioned in ancient Indian literature in connection with Krishna.[2] they were a warlike tribe is admitted by all and Probably they were a semi-nomadic people as they are associated with various peoples and provinces.[3] A historical people of the same name are mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
Krishna belonged to a nomadic tribe of Abhiras known as Sāttvatas who inhabited the country near Mathura. These Sāttvatas or more properly the Yadavas of whom they were a branch were mentioned by Panini.[4]
- ↑ Stietencron, Heinrich von; Flamm, Peter (1992). Epic and Purāṇic bibliography: S-Z, Indexes. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 252. ISBN 978-3-447-03028-1.
- ↑ Klostermaier, Klaus K. (2014-10-01). A Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-78074-672-2.
- ↑ Institute, Bhandarkar Oriental Research (1917). Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. The Institute. p. 564.
- ↑ Mitra, Khagendranath (1952). The Dynamics of Faith: Comparative Religion. University of Calcutta. p. 213.
Krishna belongs to a nomadic tribe of Abhiras known as Sāttvatas who inhabited the country near Mathura. These Sāttvatas or more properly the Yadavas of whom they were a branch were mentioned by Panini.