There seem to have been 56 clans of the Indu or Lunar race, but the Yadu was at one time the most illustrious of all the tribes of India, and be came the patronymic of the descendants of Budh.
The annals of the 13hatti of Jeysulmir, 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, az 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. The Jharijah is the most import ant tribe of the Yadu race next to the Bhatti. Its history is similar.
The most common epithet of Krishna, or Heri, was Shama or Sama, from his dark complexion. Hence the 'Jharijah bore it as a patronymic, and the whole race were Sama.-putia (children of Sama), whence the titular name, Sambus, of its princes. The modern Jharijah, who from circum stances has so mixed with the Muhammadans 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 Sham 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 conspicuous of the Yadu race ; but there are others who still bear the original title, of which the head is the prince of the petty state of Kerrowlee on the Chambal. This portion of the Yadu stock would appear never to have strayed far beyond the ancient limits of the Surascni, around Mathura, their ancestral abode.
They held the celebrated Biana ; whence expelled, they established Kerrowlee west, and Subbulghur 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 Kerrowlee, held by a junior.branch.
The Yadu are scattered ova Northern India ; many chiefs of consequence amongst the Mahrattas are of this tribe, and there are eight saca of the race, four of whom are,—the Yadu chief of Kerrowlee ; the 'Matti chief of Jeysulmir ; the Jharijah chief of Cutch Bliooj ; and the Sumaitcha Muliam inadans in Sind. The rajas of Vijayanagar claimed to be of the Yadu tribe.
The Tuar, though acknowledged as a subdivision of the Yadu, is placed by the best genealogists as one of the thirty-six ' royal Rajputs, a rank to which its celebrity.justly entitles it. Colonel Tod supposes the Yadu to have been of Indo-Getic origin, as their habits of polyandrism would almost demonstrate, and as the beet informed of the Jain sect assure us that Nemnath, the twenty second Budha, was not only a Yadu, but the near kinsman of Krishna. He regards the Yadu to be the Yu-te, or ancient Gete of the Jaxartes, amongst whom, according to Professor Neumann, from Chinese authorities, one of the Shamanean sages sprang, 800 years before Christ, The term Nemeswar probably means the founder of this race, from Nema, foundation, and Iswara, lord. The traditions of the Jat claim the regions west of the Indus as the cmdle of the race, and make them of Yadu extraction, thus corroborating the annals of the Yadu, which relate their migration from Zabulisthan. The Yadu of Jeysulmir, who ruled Zabulisthan and founded Ghazni, claim the Chaghtai as of their own Indu stock, a claim which Colonel Tod deems worthy' of credit.— To(fs Rajasthan, i. pp. 85, 163.