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'''Yadu''' is one of the five early [[List of Rigvedic tribes|Indo-Aryan tribes]] (''[[Pancha-janah|panchajana]]'', ''panchakrishtya'' or ''panchamanusha'') mentioned in the [[Rig Veda|Rigveda]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Singh |first=Upinder |author-link=Upinder Singh |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GW5Gx0HSXKUC&pg=PA187 |year=2008 |publisher=Pearson Education |location=Delhi |isbn=978-81-317-1120-0 |page=187}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Jamison|first=Stephanie|title=The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India|last2=Brereton|first2=Joel|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|isbn=9780199370184|pages=54}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Witzel|first=Michael|date=1999|title=Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan: (Ṛgvedic, Middle and Late Vedic).|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.411.6137&rep=rep1&type=pdf|journal=Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies|volume=5|pages=3, 33}}</ref> The Yadus had a tribal union with the [[Turvashas|Turvasha]] tribe, and were frequently described together.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Witzel|first=Michael|date=2001|title=Autochthonous Aryans?: The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts.|url=http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.pdf|journal=Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies|volume=7|pages=7}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Erdosy|first=George|title=Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Rgvedic history: poets, chieftains and politics|last2=Witzel|first2=Michael|publisher=De Gruyter|year=1995|isbn=|location=|pages=204}}</ref> The Yadus were a partly Indo-Aryan-acculturated Indus tribe.<ref name=":0" /> By the time of the arrival of the [[Puru (Vedic tribe)|Puru]] and [[Bharatas (tribe)|Bharata]] tribes, the Yadu-Turvashas were settled in [[Punjab]], with the Yadus possibly residing along the [[Yamuna|Yamuna River]].{{Sfn|Erdosy|Witzel|1995|p=262}}

== Etymology ==
The name ''Yadu'' is of non-Indo-Aryan origin.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Witzel|first=Michael|date=1999|title=Aryan and non-Aryan Names in Vedic India. Data for the linguistic situation, c. 1900-500 B.C..|url=https://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/Lingsit.pdf|journal=Harvard Oriental Series Opera Minora|volume=3}}</ref>

== Rigveda ==
In Mandalas 4 and 5 of the Rigveda, the god [[Indra]] is stated to have saved the Yadu-Turvashas from drowning when they crossed rivers.{{Sfn|Erdosy|Witzel|1995|p=235}}{{Sfn|Jamison|Brereton|2014|p=605, 695}} In Mandala 6, the Yadu-Turvashas are stated to have been "brought from far away" by [[Indra]].{{Sfn|Erdosy|Witzel|1995|p=222, 262}}{{Sfn|Jamison|Brereton|2014|p=829}}

The Yadu-Turvashas are treated relatively positively in Mandalas 5, 6, and 8,{{Sfn|Erdosy|Witzel|1995|p=237}} and are stated to be the occasional allies and enemies of the Puru-Bharatas.{{Sfn|Erdosy|Witzel|1995|p=235}} In the [[Battle of the Ten Kings]], the Yadus were defeated by Bharata chieftain [[Sudas]].{{Sfn|Erdosy|Witzel|1995|p=239}}

== References ==
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