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in turn comes from Yaudheya (the change of y to j being very common) who in Kshatrapa inscriptions appear as the neighbours of the Ahirs. After the fall of the Valabhis (A.D. 770) the Yaudheyas seem to have established themselves in Kutch and the Ahirs settled and made conquests in Kathiawar. In the decline of local rule brought about by these incursions and by the establishment of an Ahir or Chudasamā kingdom at Junagadh, the Jethvas seem to have abandoned Ghumli which is close to Junagadh and gone to Srinagar or Kaptelan near Porbandar which is considered to have been the seat of Jethva power before Porbandar.