The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.59

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² This family, according to Bhagvanlal Indraji and Jackson, belonged to the Cūḍāsamā tribe, who settled in Sind and Kathiawar between c. 920 and 940 A.D. ‘The Cūḍāsamās are still commonly called *Āhera-rāṇās*’ (*BG*, Vol. I, Part I, pp. 137, 139, etc.). This identification is supported by the fact that we have a number of inscriptions of the Cūḍāsamās in Vanthali in Junagarh, which was the capital of the Abhīra chieftain; see *ARB*, pp. 176, 178-79, 316-17 and 803-05; *ASWI*, Vol. II, pp. 159-64. For the close connection of the Abhīras with the Sammas of Sind, see *BG*, Vol. I, Part I, p. 138; also *Elliot*, Vol. I, p. 266. Both the Abhīras and Sammas were beef-eaters; see also *DHNI*, Vol. I, p. 38.