The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c14.18

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The early patrimony of the clan lay in northern Mahārāṣṭra, where also was situated its later capital Devagiri, whilst Marāthi literature flourished at the royal court in later times. We may therefore most probably presume that the Yādava family was in fact an indigenous Marātha sept, which, on rising to political eminence, began to profess a descent from Yadu and to claim to have emigrated from Dvārakā in Kathiawar.