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XLII
Kavyanusasana
by several brothers whose names cannot be made out. In the geneology the kings are called 'Swami' and 'Bhadramukha '.
I mention only those Kshatrapa kings about whom we know something more than mere names which are given by the coins. In the case of Sanghadaman the interesting question arises whether or not he is to be identified with the 'Sandanes whom the Periplus describes as taking the regular mart Kalyāṇ, near Bombay from Saraganes that is the Dakhan Ṣātakarṇis, and, to prevent it again, becoming a place of trade, forbidding all Greek ships to visit Kalyan, and sending under a guard to Broach any Greek ships that even by accident entered its port' (B. G. footnote p. 44.). There are, however, reasons against identifying Sandanes with Sanghadaman.
After examining the available evidence the author of the footnote of the B. G. concludes "The only possible lord of Gujarat either in the second or third century who can have adopted such a policy was the Kshatrapa of Ujjain in Malwa and Minnagara or Junagadh in Kathiawada, the same ruler, who to encourage foreign vessels to visit Broach had stationed native fishermen with well-manned long boats off the south Kathiawada coast to meet ships and pilot them through the tidal and other dangers up the Narbada to Broach. It follows that the Sandanes of the Periplus and Ptolemy's North Konkan Sadans are the Gujarat Mahakshatrapas" (p. 45).
From the hoard of Kshatrapa coins found in 1861 near Karad on the river Krishna, thirty-one miles south of Satara, it is inferred that from Vijayasena
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