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Introduction
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After Rudradaman there were about twenty-two kings some of whom were Mahākshatrapas while the rest were Kshatrapas. Rudradā man was succeeded by his son Dámājadasri who was succeeded by his son Jīvadāman. But Jīvadā man appears to have been deposed soon after he came to the throne by his uncle Rudrasimha I. Of the time of Rudrasimha we have one inscription from the village of Gunda in Halar district (Kathiawad) which is dated in the year 103, that is, 181 A. D. It commemorates the event of building a well for public use in the village of Rasopadra by the general Rudrabhūti the son of the general Bápaka Ābhira. After his death his nephew Jīvadāman again seems to have come to the throne. We have one of his coins bearing the year 118, that is, 196 A. D.
Then comes Rudrasena - a son of Rudrasimha to the throne. Of his time we have two incriptions - one found at Muliyasar and the other at Jasdan. The inscription from Muliyāsar commemorates a heroic deed of Vanijaka who saved a friend's life at the cost of his own. The Jasdan inscription refers to a 'satra', which may mean a house for charitable feeding, built
It may be poted that the gotras of Rshabhadeva of the second and the fourth inscriptions are the same viz. Opasati - which is also the gotra of Jeshtavīrā of the first. The father's name in the second is Sihila, while in the fourth is Treshtadata. Ya adatá-wife of Madana-and Treshtadata were Buddhists. The stones on which these four inscriptions are engraved are called Lashti' in all the four.
These inscriptions were deciphered by Prof. Devadatta Bhandarkara. They were originally at Andhau in Cutch. ( Historical inscriptions of Gujarat. Part I. pp. 17-20).
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