 According to the "Bhavishya Purana", a text with several interpolated sections that cannot be reliably dated, Alha's mother, Devaki, was a member of the Ahir caste.The Ahirs are among the "oldest pastoralists" and were rulers of Mahoba.The "Bhavishya Purana" further adds that it is not only the mothers of Alha and Udal who are Ahirs, but their paternal grandmother from Baksar are also Ahir, who entered the family with a blessing of "Devi chandika" that come not from wrestling buffaloes but from her nine-year vow to the nine Durgas and hence the Ahirs were natural relatives of the family.