The Age of the Imperial Guptas c4.62

c4.62

The Yaudheyas still survive in the Pañjab and Sindh. They have become Musulmans and inhabit the banks of the Indus from Bahāwalpur and Multan to the Kohistān *tāluqa* of the Karachi district. Parts of the Bahāwalpur State and the Multan district are still called Johiyāwār. Remnants of the tribe still inhabit the Kohistān tāluqa of the Karachi district under their own chief who is known as the Johiyā-jo-Jām.¹ The yaudheyas were defeated by the Mahākṣatrapa Rudradaman I sometime before 150 A.D.² At one time the Yaudheyas inhabited Eastern Rajputana and one of their inscriptions of the 3rd century A.D. , has been discovered at Bayana ³ in the southern part of the Bharatpur State. They are also known from their tribal coins. Some of them were issued in the name of the Yaudheya tribal republic,⁴ while others bear names of kings.⁵ Like the Mālava tribal coinage, the Yaudheya coinage also comes to a sudden end in the 4th century A.D.