Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "अहीर" in Hindi language version.
The Bhagavata calls the Abhiras, 'Saurashtra' and 'Avantya' rulers (Saurashtra-Āvanty Ābhīrāḥ), and the Vishnu treats the Abhiras as occupying the Surashtra and Avanti provinces.नामालूम प्राचल
|quote-page= की उपेक्षा की गयी (मदद)The Abhiras (Ahīrs), an agricultural and pastoral community of Rajasthan and Gujarat, call themselves Yadavas and the notion that Kṛṣṇa was an Abhīra was natural to Jayadeva who uses abhīra as an epithet of Kṛṣṇa.
According to the Mahabharata (Sabha. 31), the Abhiras lived near the seashore and on the bank of the Sarasvati, a river near Somanāth in Gujarāt.
Besides this mythical origin of the Yadavas, semi-historical and historical evidence exists* for equating the Ahirs with the Yadavas. It is argued that the term Ahir comes from Abhira (Bhandarkar, 1911:16), who were once found in different parts of India, and who in several places wielded political power. The Abhiras are equated with Ahirs, Gopas and Gollas, and all of them are considered Yadavas.