12 March 2012 07:51:21 AM
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Here is another one. It clearly mentions the word Saini and links them with Yadavas ruling Mathura (which was called Saur Sen after Maharaja Shoorsen):
” The influence of Saur Sen people can be judged from the fact that the dialect of the entire north India at one time was known as ‘Saursaini’… The above group of Yadavas came back from Sindh to Brij area and occupied Bayana in Bharatpur district. After some struggle the ‘Balai’ inhabitants were forced by Shodeo and Saini rulers to move out of Brij land and thus they occupied large areas.”
-Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Volume 100, pp 119 – 120, SS Sashi, Anmol Publications, 1996
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In the second reference below, although the word Shoorsaini is not directly mentioned but it is implied because Mathura was the capital of historical Shoorsaini kingdom. The author is positively identifying Sains as a Rajput group because he mentions them in a passage devoted to dispersal of Rajput clans and no where expresses doubt about “Sainis trace their origin to a Rajput clan” part. This Rajput clan was called Shoorsaini mentioned in the previous reference. Both the references are about the same group of people, i.e Shoorsainis
“The Muhammadan invasions drove a wedge through the Rajput principalities of the eastern Punjab. Some of the Rajput clans fled to the deserts of Rajputana in the south, others overcame the petty chiefs of Himalayan districts and established themselves there. A few adventurers came to terms with the invaders and obtained from them grants of land. The Sainis trace their origin to a Rajput clan who came from their original home near Muttra [sic] on Jumna, south of Delhi, in defence of the Hindus against the first Muhammadan invasions.”
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-The land of the five rivers; an economic history of the Punjab from the earliest times to the year of grace 1890, pp 100, Hugh Kennedy Trevaskis, [London] Oxford University press, 1928