Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.17

c26.17

§ 145. The Yaudheyas are lost to history some time before the seventh century. For Varāha-Mihira gives the traditional geography and has no living fact before him when he places them with the Gandhāras. The Johiyā Rajputs who are found on the banks of the Sutlej along the Bahawalpur Frontier have been identified as modern representatives of the ancient Yaudheyas.³ This identification appears to be sound both on philological and territorial grounds.