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XLIV
Kavya nusasana
Sam. 1; and the third from Kanheri dated Sam. 245 not giving the king's name but only mentioning in the year two hundred and forty five of the increasing rule of the Traikuṭakas.'
We have also coins of Dahrasena and his son Vyaghrasena. In Dahrasena's coin on one side is a bust and on the other a Chaitya and stars and the Brahmi legend "Mahārājendradattaputra - Parama - Vaishnava - Sri Mahārāja Dahrasena. " On the silver coin of Vyaghrasena we have the Brahmi legend 'Mahārāja Dahrasenaputra - Parama - Vaishṇava - Srī Mahārāja Vyaghrasena.
The Samvat is identified with Chedi or Kalachuri era. The initial date is 248-49 A. D. So the three inscriptions will have the corresponding dates, 45556 A. D.; 489-90 A. D.; 493-94 A. D. respectively.
Even though the materials regarding the Traikutakas are meagre, it is possible to infer from them that they were powerful kings who ruled southern Gujarat and North Konkana and for sometime Saurashtra also, (Puratattva Vol. II p. 58) in the later half of the 5th century A. D. According to the B. G. this dynasty rose to consequence about the time of the middle Kshatrapas (250 A. D.).
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Dahrasena was the performer of an Asvamedha sacrifice. We know from his coin that his father's name was Indradatta. He issued his grant from his military camp at Amraka to a Brahmaṇa named Nanna inhabitant of Kapura giving him the village Taḍāka sarika the smaller in the Vishaya - district - of Antara mandali.. The name of the Dutaka was Buddhagupta.
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