A stability analysis was carried out using nine single crosses and fifteen diverse three-way crosses for nine traits across three locations viz . Dharwad Annigeri and Raichur during Kharif 2006. The analysis of variance for stability revealed significant differences among the hybrids for all the characters except head diameter and 100 seed weight. The additive environmental variance found to be of considerable magnitude as indicated by the significance of variance due to environment (linear) for all the characters thus implying that no simple relationship existed between genotypes and the environment. The single cross hybrids CMS 17 A x RHA-95-C-1 and DCMS 51 A x RHA-6D-1 excelled in their mean performance for seed yield however two three-way hybrids CMS 234 A x DSI-2 x RHA-6D-1 and DCMS 51 A x DSI-1017 x RHA-6D-1 regarded as the best for high seed yield besides well adaptability. Diversification of leading single cross hybrids such as RSFH-1 KBSH-44 KBSH-1 and DCMS 51 A with inbreds DSI-2 and DSI-1017 and consequent their three way crosses excelled in performance for a majority of the traits such as head diameter number of filled seeds per head 100 seed weight and seed yield per plant.