A Historical Review on Lunar Race  Real Yadava Tribe of Rajputs : Ancient to  Present day

King Yadu

The king Yadu was founder of the fifty-six tribes (Cha-pan- kula-Yadu) who obtained the universal sovereignty  of India, and was eldest son  from Yayati and Devayani. The Swayambhuma Manu, also called Vaivasvata Manu, or the man, lord of the earth, whose daughter Ella (Terra) was espoused by Budha  (Mercury), son of Chandra (the Moon), whence  the Yadus are styled Chandravansi, or children of  the moon. Budha was therefore worshipped as  the great ancestor and the progenitor of the Lunar race and previous to the apotheosis of Krishna was adored by all the Yadu race .The principal shrine of Budha was at Dwaraka ,where he still receives adoration as Budha Trivikramas , the triple energy , like the Hermes Triplex of Egypt.

• Who were the Yadus or Yadavas -

The word "Yadava " is admittedly a vedic patronymic derived from Yadu .
Mahabharat says -- "It has been remberbed the Yadavas  were the descendants of Yadu , the son of Yayati -Nahusa. "The Philologists declare that the " Y" in "Yadava  "may be replaced by "J" ,that is both the forms "Yadava " and "Jadava  "are permissible and therefore interchangeable . According to several historians like Wilson  ,James Tod and S.W Elliot the Yadava is a Sanskrit word and it's hindi version is Jadon . transformation.Yadava onward came to the substituted for Surasena in early eleventh century .From Yadavas to Jadavas and then to Jadon or Jadaun was an early ethymological transformation.(Indian History Congress, ,Vol.60, p.1122,1127,2000.)Dr Hoernle has pointed out Badon might be simply a corruption of Bhadava as Jadon is for Jadava.Jadava vulgarly Jadon clan (F.S.Growse).Jadu being for Sanskrit Jadava.

• Origin of the name Jadon in place of Yadava-

The origin of the name , "Jadon ", is traced by Sir Henry Elliot to ancient Yadus or Yadavas ,but it would perhaps be more correct to say that Jadon ,Jadu and Yadavas are etymologically the same ,the former being corruption of the last.The tribe traditionally belongs to the Lunar Race and processes to trace its descent in a direct line from Krishna.The title of "Jadon ",is now exclusively applied to that tribe which appears never to have strayed far from the limits of the ancient Suraseni (James Tod .)

• The Modern time Real Yadavas Clans-

The real  modern Yadavas clans are Jadons ,Bhattis , Chudasamas Sarvaiyas,Raizadas ,Jadejas Jadhavas,Surasenas ,Banafars and  Wadiyars yaduvanshi Kshatriyas etc and their sub-divisions.

• The old Ruling States of Real Yadavas-

Their ruling States were Karauli ,Awagarh ,Gabhana ,Sirmathura,Rijhauni ,Kathiwara,Kathune , Jaisalmer, Sirmur /Nahan ,Rampur Bushahar ,Kutch ,Navanagar /Jamnagar ,Gondal ,Rajkot,Dharol ,
Devagiri ,Dwarsamudra ,
Vijayanagar and Mysore .

इसे भी पढ़ें:- क्षत्रिय वंश के शौर्य के प्रतीक- सम्राट विद्याधर चंदेल, पढ़ें पूरे इतिहास।

• Old Settlement of Yadavas-

Some of their branches have taken a prominent part in the history of Central Asia, in the valley of the Indus, in the countries now styled the Panjab, Rajputana , and Sind, known in ancient times as the Gete, the Yuti, and now represented by  the Yadu Bhatti ofJesalmer, all dwelling along the valley of the Indus and to the east in Rajputana. A multiplicity of scattered facts and geographical distinctious warrant the belief that the Yadava race had dominion in Central Asia, and were again, as other races advanced, repelled upon India. 

Ayu or Yaou is claimed by the Tartar and Chinese genealogists as their great progenitor; from Yayati sprang three great lines, the Yadu, Puru and Ura or Urvass. from each of whom came many dynasties ruling on  the Indus ,in Hindustan ,Assam ,Ava and China .

• Means of Lunar Race -

The descendants of Budh and Ila were known as the Chandravanse ,Somvanse and Induvanse , all of these terms meaning the Lunar Race .,but the fame of the Yadu eclipsed the prior designations , and throughout India the Lunar race came to be styled Yaduvanse .
The Yadu held territories in Hindustan about Allahabad , but seemingly in small Republican states ,some of which were staked and lost at play.The relatives then faught for dominion ,for 18 days ,on the field of Kurukhetra .There was no battle of armies ,but a series of single combats with treacherous ,cruel ,surprises, during which nearly all of the Yadu fell and at the close ,of those remaining  ,several,  amongst whom Krishna was one ,emigrated .

इसे भी पढ़ें:- पुण्यतिथि- आर्यों को भारत का मूल निवासी सिद्ध करने वाले इतिहासकार - गंगाराम सम्राट

• The emigration of Yadavas  from Mathura to  Dwaraka and to other Countries -

The story is told in the Mahabharta .After the combats  the Yadu seem to have left the Ganges , to have been expelled from Dwaraka ,to have crossed  the Indus ,passed  Zabulisthan and founded Ghazani and Samarcand claim which Ghaghatai as their own indu stock   , but to have swept  back on the Indus into Gujrat and Indian desert from which they expelled the Langaha, Johyas, Mohila, etc., and founded successfully Tannote, Derrawul, and Jeysalmir, in ,Sambat. 1212, the present capital of the Bhatti, the lineal successors of Krishna. They are now known as the Bhatti of Jeysalmir, the Jharijah of Cutch Bhooj, the tribes occupying.Karauli and Sabalgarh  on the Chambal.

The Bhatti and Jharijah trace their descent from Budh and Krishna, and they may be said to occupy the Indian desert from the Sutlej to the ocean. Budh seems to have been a descendants of the first man, Brahma, and to have been the first emigrant from Sakadwipa or Seythin, into Hindustan, viz, about B.C. 2400. Between  Budh and Krishna was a period of 1200 years But Budha  was deified by his descendants; and in Hindu mythology he is described as of Lunar origin, the son of Soma or Chandra or Indu, the moon, by Rohini. The date of the apotheosis of Budh is not known. 
There seem to have been 56 clans of the Indus or Lunar race, but the Yadu was at one time the most illustrious of all the tribes of India, and became the patronymic of the descendants of Budh.

• Bhatis of Jaisalmer-

The annals of the Bhatti of Jaisalmer which give the early history of their founder, mix up in a confused manner the cause of their being again driven back into India. Bhatti was the exile from Zabulisthan, and, as usual with the Rajput races on any such event in their annals, his name set aside the more ancient patronymic Yadu. In  the Further Doab of the Panjab is a cluster of hills called Yadu-ka-dang. The Bhatti subdued all the tracts south of the Garrah, but their power has been greatly circumscribed since the arrival
of the Rahtor. 

इसे भी पढ़ें:- स्वरचित लेख - हमारा अस्तित्व।

• Chudasamas and Jadejas Jungarh and KutchBhuj -

The Jadejas is the most important tribe of the Yadu race next to  Jadon and Bhattis. Its history is similar.The most common epithet of Krishna , was Shama or Sama , from his dark complexion .Hence the Jadejas. bore it as a patronymic, and the whole race were Sama -putta tis (children of Sama), whence the titular name Sambus , of its princes. The modern Jadejas , who from circumstances has so mixed with the mahomedans of Sind as to have forfeited all pretensions to purity of blood, partly in ignorance and partly to cover disgrace, say that the origin is from Sham, or Syria, and of the stock of the Persian Jamshid ; consequently, Sam has been converted into Jam; which epithet designates one of the Jharijah petty governments, the Jam Raj. The Bhatti and the Jharijah are the most it conspicuous  of the Yadu race.

• Jadons of Bayana and Karauli-

 but there are others who still bear the original title, of which the head is the prince of the petty state of Karauli on the Chambal. This portion of the Yadu stock would appear never to have strayed far beyond the ancient limits of the Suraseni, the Suraseni of Vrij, the tract so named, thirty miles around Mathura, their ancestral abode. They held the celebrated Bayana ; whence expelled, they established Karauli west, and Sabalgarh  east, of the Chambal . The tract under the latter, called Yaduvati, has been wrested from the family by Sindia. Sri Mathura is an independent fief of Karauli., held by a junior branch. 

A tribe of Jadon rajputs landlords and cultivators dwelling in considerable numbers about Agra, Mathura ,Etah ,Aligarh , Hathras, Bulhandshahar,Firozabad ,Mainpuri ,Etawa ,Banda ,Mahoba ,Jalaun , Kaushambi ,Kanpur ,Auriya and  Jhansi districts of Uttar Pradesh , in the Central Doab and in Eastern Malwa .The Raja of Karauli and Awagarh of this tribe.Some of their subdivisions are held in little esteem and are termed as Badesari, Chhonkars ,Poarch ,Bangarand Tank  by the neighbours ;but they are spirited farmers and rising in wealth .

The Yadu, or as pronounced in the dialects, Jadoon, are scattered over Northern India, and Many chiefs of consequence amongst the Mahrattas (Jadhavas) , Banafers of Mahoba ,Wadiyar of Mysure are of this Yadu tribe. 

इसे भी पढ़ें:- ऐतिहासिक परिचय : क्षत्रिय महासभा तदर्थनाम अखिल भारतीय क्षत्रिय महासभा स्थापना।

There are eight Shakhas of the Yadu race, four of whom are:-

1. Yadu chiefs of Karauli (Jadons )
2. Bhatti -Chiefs of Jaisalmer
3. Jadejas -Chiefs of Kutch Bhuj
4. Sumaitcha- Muhammdans in Sind.

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Author—Prof.Dr Dhirendra Singh Jadaun
Village-Larhota,Sasni District-.Hathras ,U.P
Principal,Govt .Girls.P.G College ,Sawaimadhopur 
Rajasthan