Yadava, the Glossary
The Yadava were an ancient Indian people who believed to be descended from Yadu, a legendary king of Chandravamsha lineage.[1]
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142 relations: Aṅguttara Nikāya, Aṣṭādhyāyī, Abdullah Qutb Shah, Abhira people, Adi Parva, Ahir, Aitareya Brahmana, Akrura, Alexander Cunningham, Andhaka, Animal husbandry, Aniruddha, Aravalli Range, Arjuna, Balakanda, Balarama, Bhagavata Purana, Bhagyanagar, Bharatas (Vedic tribe), Bhāsa, Bhishmaka, Bhoja, Brahma Purana, British Museum, Buddhism, Buddhist texts, Chakravarti (Sanskrit term), Chanakya, Chedi Kingdom, Clan, Dakshinapatha, Deccan Plateau, Devaki, Devi Bhagavata Purana, Dravidian languages, Drona Parva, Dvārakā, Dwarka, Ekanamsha, Franklin Southworth, Ganges, Gautamiputra Satakarni, Gopa (caste), Gujarat, Harivaṃśa, Heheya Kingdom, Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Heracles, Historical Vedic religion, History of Hinduism, ... Expand index (92 more) »
- Ancient peoples of India
- Yadava kingdoms
Aṅguttara Nikāya
The Aṅguttara Nikāya (also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the fourth of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.
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Aṣṭādhyāyī
The (अष्टाध्यायी) is a grammar that describes a form of an early Indo-Aryan language: Sanskrit.
Abdullah Qutb Shah
Abdullah Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the seventh ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.
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Abhira people
The Abhiras were a legendary people mentioned in ancient Indian epics and scriptures as early as the Vedas. Yadava and Abhira people are ancient peoples of India.
Adi Parva
The Adi Parva or The Book of the Beginning is the first of eighteen books of the Mahabharata.
Ahir
Ahir or Aheer (Sanskrit: Abhira) are a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most members of which identify as being of the Indian Yadav community because they consider the two terms to be synonymous.
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Aitareya Brahmana
The Aitareya Brahmana (ऐतरेय ब्राह्मण) is the Brahmana of the Shakala Shakha of the Rigveda, an ancient Indian collection of sacred hymns.
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Akrura
Akrura is a Yadava prince in Hinduism, best known for being the uncle of the deity Krishna.
Alexander Cunningham
Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Sappers who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India.
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Andhaka
In Hindu literature, Andhaka (Sanskrit: अन्धक, IAST: Andhaka; lit. "He who darkens") refers to a malevolent asura, whose pride is vanquished by Shiva and Parvati.
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.
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Aniruddha
Aniruddha (lit) is a character in Hindu mythology, the son of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, and the grandson of Krishna and Rukmini.
Aravalli Range
The Aravalli Range (also spelled Aravali) is a mountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat.
Arjuna
Arjuna was an ancient prince of the Kuru Kingdom, located in the present-day India.
Balakanda
Bala Kanda (बालकाण्ड; IAST: ') is the first Book of the Valmiki Ramayana. The Bala Kanda, in partif not in its entiretyis generally regarded as an interpolation to the original epic.
Balarama
Balarama (बलराम) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna.
Bhagavata Purana
The Bhagavata Purana (भागवतपुराण), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana or simply Bhagavata (Bhāgavata), is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas).
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Bhagyanagar
Bhagyanagar a twin city of Koppal, located one kilometre away from Koppal, is a town panchayat area.
Bharatas (Vedic tribe)
The Bharatas were an early Vedic tribe that existed in the latter half of the second millennium B.C.E. The earliest mentioned location of the Bharatas was on the first Sarasvatī River in southern Afghanistan. Yadava and Bharatas (Vedic tribe) are ancient peoples of India.
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Bhāsa
Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa.
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Bhishmaka
Bhishmaka, also called Hiranyaroman, is the king of Vidarbha In Hinduism.
Bhoja
Bhoja (reigned c. 1010–1055 CE) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Malwa in central India, where his capital Dhara-nagara (modern Dhar) was located.
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Brahma Purana
The Brahma Purana (ब्रह्मपुराण or ब्राह्मपुराण) is one of the eighteen major Puranas collections of Hindu texts in Sanskrit.
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions.
Chakravarti (Sanskrit term)
A chakravarti (चक्रवर्तिन्) is an ideal (or idealized) universal ruler, in the history, and religion of India.
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Chanakya
Chanakya (ISO:,; 375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and politician.
Chedi Kingdom
Chedi was a kingdom which fell roughly in the Bundelkhand division of Madhya Pradesh regions to the south of river Yamuna along the river Ken. Yadava and Chedi Kingdom are Yadava kingdoms.
Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
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Dakshinapatha
Dakshinapatha is a historical region which is the ancient equivalent of the present-day Deccan.
Deccan Plateau
The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.
Devaki
Devaki (Sanskrit: देवकी, IAST: Devakī) is a character in Hindu literature, most noted for being the mother of the god Krishna.
Devi Bhagavata Purana
The Devi Bhagavata Purana (देवी भागवतपुराणम्), also known as the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam or simply Devi Bhagavatam, is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas of Hinduism.
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Dravidian languages
The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.
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Drona Parva
The Drona Parva (द्रोण पर्व), or the Book of Drona, is the seventh of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
Dvārakā
Dvārakā, also known as Dvāravatī (Sanskrit द्वारका "the gated ", possibly meaning having many gates, or alternatively having one or several very grand gates), is a sacred historic city in the sacred literature of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. Yadava and Dvārakā are Yadava kingdoms.
Dwarka
Dwarka is a town and municipality of Devbhumi Dwarka district in the state of Gujarat.
Ekanamsha
Ekanamsha (एकानंशा) is a Hindu goddess.
Franklin Southworth
Franklin C. Southworth (born 1929) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of South Asian linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Ganges
The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Gautamiputra Satakarni
Gautamiputra Satakarni (Brahmi: 𑀕𑁄𑀢𑀫𑀺𑀧𑀼𑀢 𑀲𑀸𑀢𑀓𑀡𑀺, Gotamiputa Sātakaṇi, IAST) was a ruler of the Satavahana Empire in present-day Deccan region of India.
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Gopa (caste)
Gopa or Gop or Gope is a synonym of the Yadav (Ahir) caste.
Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Harivaṃśa
The Harivamsa is an important work of Sanskrit literature, containing 16,374 shlokas, mostly in the anustubh metre.
Heheya Kingdom
In the Mahabharata epic, the Heheya Kingdom (also known as Haihaya, Haiheya, Heiheya, etc.) is one of the kingdoms ruled by Chandravanshi (Yadava) kings in central and western India. Yadava and Heheya Kingdom are Yadava kingdoms.
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri (হেম চন্দ্র রায়চৌধুরী) (8 April 1892 – 4 May 1957Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1972). Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 7th edition, pp.
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Heracles
Heracles (glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.
Historical Vedic religion
The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes called "Ancient Hinduism", constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).
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History of Hinduism
The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent.
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History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
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Hoshiarpur
Hoshiarpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Hoshiarpur district in the Doaba region of the Indian state of Punjab.
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indo-Aryan peoples
Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Yadava and Indo-Aryan peoples are ancient peoples of India.
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Indraprastha
Indraprastha (lit. "Plain of Indra" or "City of Indra") is mentioned in ancient Indian literature as a city of the Kuru Kingdom.
Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
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Islamic calendar
The Hijri calendar (translit), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
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Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana
The Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana (JUB) (जैमिनीय उपनिषद्-ब्राह्मण) or the Talavakara Upanishad Brahmana (तलवकार उपनिषद्-ब्राह्मण) is a Vedic text associated with the Jaiminiya or the Talavakara shakha of the Samaveda.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Janapada
The Janapadas (c. 1500–600 BCE) were the realms, republics (ganapada) and kingdoms (sāmarājya) of the Vedic period in the Indian subcontinent.
Jataka tales
The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
Junagadh
Junagadh is the city and headquarters of Junagadh district in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Kamsa
Kamsa (कंस) was the tyrant ruler of the Vrishni kingdom, with its capital at Mathura.
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Karkotaka
Karkotaka (translit) is a naga king in Hinduism.
Kartavirya Arjuna
Kartavirya Arjuna (कार्तवीर्य अर्जुन,; also known as Sahasrabahu Arjuna or Sahasrarjuna) was a king of an ancient Haihayas kingdom with capital at Mahishmati which is on the banks of Narmada River in the current state of Madhya Pradesh.
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Kāśī (kingdom)
Kāśī (Kāsī) was an ancient kingdom of India whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. Yadava and Kāśī (kingdom) are ancient peoples of India.
Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Kritavarma
Kritavarma (कृतवर्मा) is a Vrishni Yadava warrior in Hinduism.
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.
Kuru Kingdom
Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharatas and other Puru clans. Yadava and Kuru Kingdom are ancient peoples of India.
Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra is a city and administrative headquarters of Kurukshetra district in the Indian state of Haryana.
Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War (कुरुक्षेत्र युद्ध), also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata, arising from a dynastic struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura.
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Kusha (Ramayana)
Kusha (कुश) and his younger twin brother Lava were the children of Rama and Sita.
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Linga Purana
The Linga Purana (लिङ्गपुराण, IAST) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, and a Shaivism text of Hinduism.
List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes
This is a list of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes that are mentioned in the literature of Indian religions.
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List of Indian monarchs
This article is a list of the various dynasties and monarchs that have ruled in the Indian subcontinent and it is one of several lists of incumbents.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Ludhiana
Ludhiana is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Punjab.
Lunar dynasty
The Lunar dynasty (IAST: Candravaṃśa) is a legendary principal house of the Kshatriyas varna, or warrior–ruling varna (Social Class) mentioned in the ancient Indian texts.
Madhu
Madhu (Sanskrit) is a word used in several Indo-Aryan languages meaning honey or sweet.
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Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.
Mahabali
Mahabali (IAST: Mahābalī), also known as Bali, Indrasenan, or Māveli, is a daitya king featured in Hinduism.
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Mahishmati
Mahishmati was an ancient city and the capital of Haihayas in the present-day central India on the banks of Narmada River (in Madhya Pradesh), although its exact location is uncertain.
Manusmriti
The Manusmṛti (मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many of Hinduism.
Mathura
Mathura is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
Matsya Purana
The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism.
Mausala Parva
The Mausala Parva (lit) is the sixteenth of the eighteen books of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata.
Megasthenes
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, died 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period.
Mleccha
Mleccha (from) is a Sanskrit term, referring to those of an incomprehensible speech, foreign or barbarous invaders as distinguished from the Vedic tribes.
Mora Well Inscription
The Mora Well inscription is an ancient Sanskrit inscription found in the village of Mora about from Mathura, India.
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Nanda (Hinduism)
Nanda is a cow-herd chief, and the foster-father of Krishna, featured in the Harivamsha and the Puranas.
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Narmada River
The Narmada River, previously also known as Narbada or anglicised as Nerbudda, is the 5th longest river in India and overall the longest west-flowing river in the country.
Nirukta
Nirukta (निरुक्त,, "explained, interpreted") is one of the six ancient Vedangas, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism.
Outline of ancient India
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient India: Ancient India is the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the start of Medieval India, which is typically dated (when the term is still used) to the end of the Gupta Empire around 500 CE.
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Pali
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.
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Pali Canon
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.
Pauravas
The Pauravas were an ancient tribe in the Indus valley, to which King Porus may have belonged.
Pāṇini
(पाणिनि.) was a logician, Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India, variously dated between the 7th and 4th century BCE.
Pottery in the Indian subcontinent
Pottery in the Indian subcontinent has an ancient history and is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of Indian art.
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Pradyumna
Pradyumna (lit) is the eldest son of the Hindu deities Krishna and his chief consort, Rukmini.
Punjab, India
Punjab (Also and other variants) is a state in northwestern India.
Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.
Puru (Vedic tribe)
The Purus were a Rigvedic tribe or a confederation of tribes that existed between c. 1700–1400 BCE.
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R. G. Bhandarkar
Sir Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (रामकृष्ण गोपाळ भांडारकर) (6 July 1837 – 24 August 1925) was an Indian scholar, orientalist, and social reformer.
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Rama
Rama is a major deity in Hinduism.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Rigvedic rivers
The Rigveda refers to a number of rivers located in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, from Gandhara to Kurukshetra.
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Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is an Indian historian.
Rudradaman I
Rudradāman I (r. 130–150) was a Śaka ruler from the Western Kshatrapas dynasty.
Rukmi
Rukmi (रुक्मी) is the ruler of Vidarbha according to the epic Mahabharata.
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Rukmini
Rukmini (lit) is a Hindu goddess and the first queen of Krishna.
Sarasvati River
The Sarasvati River is a mythologized and deified ancient river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts.
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Satyaki
Yuyudhana (युयुधान), better known as Satyaki (सात्यकि), was a powerful Yadava chieftain of Narayani Sena, belonging to the Vrishni clan to which Krishna also belonged.
Shanti Parva
The Shanti Parva (शान्ति पर्व; IAST: Śānti parva; "Book of Peace") is the twelfth of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata.
Shatapatha Brahmana
The Shatapatha Brahmana (lit,, abbreviated to 'SB') is a commentary on the Śukla Yajurveda.
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Shatrughna
Shatrughna (lit), also known as Ripudaman, is the younger brother of Rama, and King of Madhupura and Vidisha, in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Solar dynasty
The Solar dynasty or (सूर्यवंश), also called the Ikshvaku dynasty is a legendary Indian dynasty said to have been founded by Ikshvaku.
Sultanate of Golconda
The Sultanate of Golconda (Persian:; Urdu) was an early modern kingdom in southern India, ruled by the Persianate Shia Islamic Qutb Shahi dynasty of Turkoman origin.
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Surasena
The kingdom of Surasena was an ancient Indian region corresponding to the present-day Braj region in Uttar Pradesh, with Mathura as its capital city. Yadava and Surasena are ancient peoples of India and Yadava kingdoms.
Syamantaka
The Syamantaka is a legendary jewel featured in Hindu literature, regarded to be blessed with magical powers.
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa
The (Sanskrit, meaning 'Brāhmaṇa of the school of Tittri', abbreviated to 'TB') is a commentary on the Krishna Yajurveda.
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Taittiriya Shakha
The Taittirīya Shakha (Sanskrit, loosely meaning 'Branch or School of the sage Tittiri'), is a shakha (i.e. 'branch', 'school', or rescension) of the Krishna (black) Yajurveda.
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Tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group.
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Turvasu Druhyu and Anu dynasties
The Turvasu dynasty, Druhyu dynasty and the Anu dynasty are the names of three legendary cadet branches of the Lunar dynasty in Hindu literature, featured in the Puranas and the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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Ugrasena
Ugrasena (उग्रसेन) is a character mentioned in the Hindu epic, Mahabharata.
Ujjain
Ujjain (Hindustani pronunciation: ʊd͡ːʒɛːn, old name Avantika) or Ujjayinī is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Vaishnavism
Vaishnavism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism.
Vasudeva
Vasudeva (Sanskrit: वसुदेव, IAST: Vasudeva), also called Anakadundubhi (anakas and dundubhis both refer to drums, after the musicians who played these instruments at the time of his birth), is the father of the Hindu deities Krishna (Vāsudeva, i.e. "son of Vasudeva"), Balarama, and Subhadra.
Vayu Purana
The Vayu Purana (वायुपुराण) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.
Vāsudeva
Vāsudeva (वासुदेव), later incorporated as Vāsudeva-Krishna ("Krishna, son of Vasudeva"),"While the earliest piece of evidence do not yet use the name Krsna...." in At the time of the Heliodorus pillar dedication to Vāsudeva in 115 BCE: "The real question, however, remains: was Vãsudeva already identified with Krsna?" Krishna-Vāsudeva or simply Krishna, was the son of Vasudeva Anakadundubhi, king of the Vrishnis in the region of Mathura.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
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Vedic period
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age, is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain BCE.
Vedic Sanskrit
Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family.
Vidarbha
Vidarbha (Pronunciation: ʋid̪əɾbʱə) is a geographical region in the west Indian state of Maharashtra.
Vishnu Purana
The Viṣṇu Purāṇa (विष्णुपुराण) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism.
Vrishni
The Vrishnis (वृष्णि, Hindi: भेड़, English: Sheep) were an ancient Vedic Indian Gadariya (Shepherd) clan, also known as the Vrishnipala (Hindi meaning Gadariya).It is believed that Vrishni was the son of Satvata, a descendant of Yadu, the son of Yayati.
Warangal
Warangal is a city in the Indian state of Telangana and the district headquarters of Warangal district.
Yadu (legendary king)
Yadu is the founder of the Yadu dynasty in Hinduism.
See Yadava and Yadu (legendary king)
See also
Ancient peoples of India
- Abhira people
- Agalassoi
- Alchon Huns
- Arjunayanas
- Audumbaras
- Bhagga
- Bharatas (Vedic tribe)
- Bhoja tribe
- Brāhmaṇa (tribe)
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- Daradas
- Daṇḍaka
- Huna people
- Indo-Aryan peoples
- Indus Valley civilisation
- Kambojas
- Khasas
- Komedes
- Kuru Kingdom
- Kālāma
- Kāśī (kingdom)
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- Licchavis of Vaishali
- Malavas
- Meluhha
- Moriya (tribe)
- Mūtiba
- Northern Black Polished Ware
- Nāya
- Pañcāla
- Padaei
- Pulinda
- Rigvedic tribes
- Sadhaba
- Salva (India)
- Shakya
- Shakyas
- Surasena
- Uttamabhadras
- Uśīnara
- Vajji (tribe)
- Vidarbha (kingdom)
- White Huns
- Yadava
- Yona
- Ālavī
- Āndhra (tribe)
Yadava kingdoms
- Abhira Kingdom
- Anarta Kingdom
- Avanti (region)
- Avanti Kingdom (Mahabharata)
- Bhavana Sangama
- Braj
- Chedi Kingdom
- Dasarna Kingdom
- Dvārakā
- Gopa Rashtra
- Heheya Kingdom
- Karusha Kingdom
- Kunti Kingdom
- Saurashtra Kingdom
- Surasena
- Yadava
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadava
Also known as Yadavas, Yadavas/Yadav, Yadu dynasty, Yaduvamshi, Yaduvansha, Yaduvanshi dynasty.
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