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A.D.
287-8
287
289-90,
290
290-1
291-2
292-3
293-4
294-5
295-6
CHRONOLOGY OF 'GUJARAT
S. 209-Silver coins were struck by Mahākṣatrapa Bhartṛdaman.(Ibid).
S. 20(5) or 2(06) or 2(07) or 2(08) or 2'09)-Silver coins were struck by Bhartrdáman as Mahāksatrapa. The legend on the coins is राजो महाक्षस सेन राज़ो महा भर्तृदामन: । (Zhid 155ff.).
S. 211-Bhartṛdaman struck coins as Mahākṣatrapa.-( Rapson, op. cit., 156; D. R. Bhandarkar, ibid.).
This date is read by G. V. Acharya on silver coins struck by Viśvasimha as Mahākṣatrapa (JRASB. NS. XLVII, 96, ff.); but the reading is unacceptable, as Viśvasimha was already succeeded by Bhartṛdaman in or before year 204.
Rise of the Gupta dynasty founded by the feaudatory Mahārājas Gupta and Ghatotkaca. It became supreme under Candragupta I (A.D. 319), whose empire extended under his successors pyer the greater part of Northern India, from Nepal to Narmada and from Kaccha to Western Bengal. The Guptas maintained their sway until the early part of the sixth century A.D.,, when their power, broken at first by invasions of the Hunas under Toramana and Mihirkula, appears to have been finally overthrown by a feudatory king, Yasodharman during the reign of Narasimhagupta Baladitya:-(CI, iii; Int. 17). S. 212-Silver coins were struck by Mahākṣatrapa Bhartṛdaman.(Rapson, ibid., 157: D. R. Bhandarkar, ibid.).
S. 213-Silver coins were struck by Bhartṛdáman as Mahākṣatrapa.(Rapson, ibid., 157 f; D. R. Bhandarkar, ibid.).
S. 214-Mahākṣatrapa Bhartṛdāman struck silver coins.-( Rapson, ibid., 158; D. R. Bhandarkar, ibid.).
S. 215 (?)-Silver coins were struck by Mahākṣatrapa Bhartridaman. (Rapson, ibid., 158.)
The year is definitely read in the Sarvania hoard.-(D. R. Bhandarkar, op. cit., 227 ff.).
In the same year Viśvasena struck coins as Kṣatrapa-(Ibid.).
S. 210: Silver coins were struck by king Kṣatrapa Viśvasena, son of king Mahākşatrapa Bhartrdaman. The legend is राज्ञो मास राजो स Rapson, ibid., 162; D. R. Bhandarkar, op. cit., 227 ff.)
Silver coins were struck by Bhartṛdāman as Mahākṣatrapa.-G. V. Acharya, op. cit., 96).
Ś. 217-Silver coins were struck by Mahakṣatrapa Bhartrdaman (Rapson, ibid, 158) and Ksatrapa Viśvasena.-(Ibid, 162; D. R. Bhandarkar, op. cit., 227 ff.).
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The office of Mahaksatrapa seems to have been in abeyance for about 50 years after this year.
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