What is Sura Kingdom?
The '''Sura (Abhira) Kingdom''' is mentioned as one of the kingdoms or provinces of ancient India (Bharata Varsha) as per the epic [[Mahabharata]]. The Suras were a subdivision of the [[Yadav|Haihayas]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13fMr__bjIYC|title=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland|date=1919|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland.|pages=357|language=en}}</ref> They were mentioned along with another tribe called the [[Abhira|Abhiras]] along the banks of Saraswati River where it dried up in the desert. They were dominated by the [[Abhira|Abhiras]], sometimes referred to as Surabhira The [[Balarama]] visited this place during his pilgrimage along the partially dried up river Saraswati. After this place, only a dried up river bed existed and the desert or the ''Maru'' region began. According to Mahābhārata (IX.36.) Sura lived in the region of Vinasana, in the vicinity of Abhiras (tato vinaśanam rājanājagāma halāyudhaḥ śūrābhirān prati dveṣād yatra naṣṭā sarasvatī).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyhuAAAAMAAJ|title=Indian History: A Russian Viewpoint|last=Vanina|first=Evgenii͡a I͡Urʹevna|date=2003|publisher=Pragati Publications|isbn=978-81-7307-080-8|language=en|quote=According to Mahābhārata (IX.36.1) Śūra lived in the region of Vinasana, in the vicinity of Abhiras (tato vinaśanam rājanājagāma halāyudhaḥ śūrābhirān prati dveṣād yatra naṣṭā sarasvatī).}}</ref> The Suras and [[Abhira|Abhiras]]' are associated together in the [[Mahabharata]] and Harivansa and appear to have been a pastoral people in the upper portion of the [[North-western]] [[Punjab]] represented by the [[Ahir (Yadav caste)|Ahirs]] and [[Gwalvanshi Ahir|Gwalas]] of the present day.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RXWDwAAQBAJ|title=Statistical, descriptive and historical account of the North-western Provinces of India|last=Atkinson|first=Edwin T.|date=1874-01-01|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref> == Refe