The modern Jareja, who, from circumstances has so mixed with the Muhammadans of Sind as to have forfeited all pretensions to purity of blood, partly in ignorance and partly to cover disgrace, says that his origin is from Sham, or Syria, and of the stock of the Persian Jamshid: consequently, Sam has been converted into Jam[[24]]; which epithet designates one of the Jareja petty governments, the Jam Raj.
These are the most conspicuous of the Yadu race; but there are others who still bear the original title, of which the head is the prince of the petty State of Karauli on the Chambal.
This portion of the Yadu stock would appear never to have strayed far beyond the ancient limits of the Suraseni,[[25]] their ancestral abodes. They held the celebrated Bayana; whence expelled, they established Karauli west, and Sabalgarh east, of the Chambal. The tract under the latter, called Yaduvati, has been wrested from the family by Sindhia. Sri Mathura[[26]] is an independent fief of Karauli, held by a junior branch.
The Yadus, or as pronounced in the dialects Jadon, are scattered over India, and many chiefs of consequence amongst the Mahrattas are of this tribe.
There are eight sakha of the Yadu race:
| 1. | Yadu | Chief Karauli. | |
| 2. | Bhatti | Chief Jaisalmer. | |
| 3. | Jareja | Chief Cutch Bhuj. | |
| 4. | Samecha | Muhammadans in Sind. | |
| 5. | Madecha | ┐ | |
| 6. | Bidman | ├ | Unknown [87]. |
| 7. | Badda | │ | |
| 8. | Soha | ┘ |
| 1. | Yadu | Chief Karauli. | |
| 2. | Bhatti | Chief Jaisalmer. | |
| 3. | Jareja | Chief Cutch Bhuj. | |
| 4. | Samecha | Muhammadans in Sind. | |
| 5. | Madecha |  | Unknown [87]. |
| 6. | Bidman | ||
| 7. | Badda | ||
| 8. | Soha |
Tuar, Tonwar, Tomara.
We have in almost every case the etymon of each celebrated race. For the Tuar we have none; and we must rest satisfied in delivering the dictum of the Bardai, who declares it of Pandu origin.
If it had to boast only of Vikramaditya, the paramount lord of India, whose era, established fifty-six years before the Christian, still serves as the grand beacon of Hindu chronology, this alone would entitle the Tuar to the highest rank. But it has other claims to respect. Delhi, the ancient Indraprastha, founded by Yudhishthira, and which tradition says lay desolate for eight centuries, was rebuilt and peopled by Anangpal Tuar, in S. 848 (A.D. 792), who was followed by a dynasty of twenty princes, which concluded with the name of the founder, Anangpal, in S. 1220 (A.D. 1164),[[27]] when, contrary to the Salic law of the Rajputs, he abdicated (having no issue) in favour of his grandchild, the Chauhan Prithviraja.