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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1883.
(L. 11.)-(And) while the glorious Bolaga- ditale (?) and Rajayya were managing the office of head-men of the district :
(L. 12.)-While Manayya was managing the office of head-man of the village :
(L. 13.)-On Sunday, (at) the time of the sun's commencing his progress to the south, in the month) Ashâdha of the Srimukha sans vatsara, which was the Sa ka year eight hundred
and ninety-six,"S_Bolayya (f) and Rajayya and Vojayya, being in assembly), there were allotted (by him) seven mattals of black-soil land, (and) one mattal of rice-land, to the god) Mahadeva of Kadekêri.
(L. 19.)-The earth has been enjoyed by many kings, commencing with Sagara; he who for the time being possesses the earth, enjoys the reward (of this grant)!
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ANDHRAS AND THE WESTERN
KSHATRAPAS.
BY DR. G. BÜHLER, C.L.E. One of the most important discoveries pub- Satakarņi (who is) descended from the race lished in Pandit Bhagvânlal's paper, On the of Kârda maka kings (and) the daughter Antiquarian Remains at Sopára and Padana, is of the great Kshatrapa Ru...... of the that of the name of the father of the Andhra confidential minister Sateraka, a water king Siriyaña Gotamiputa II. Pandit Bhagvân- cistern, the meritorious gift." lâl reads on the reverse of the Sopârâ coin- The letters, placed between brackets, have Chaturapanasa Gotamiputakumâru Yañasåta- been restored conjecturally, with the exception kani, i.e., "Y a fi a-Satakani, the princely of the of Satakarnisya which is distinctly scion of Cha tura pa na, born of the visible. It ought to be noted that the ya of Gautami queen." He further adduces a the same word is very faint, and that the ta new Nânaghat inscription which is dated in might also be read 8a. Nevertheless, I think, the thirteenth year of the king Chatara- the restorations are perfectly certain, and it is pana Sataka ni Vasathiputa, i.e., the almost equally certain that the name of the son of the Vâsishthi queen, and identifies Mahakshatrapa was Rudra, as the size of the this ruler with the Chatura paņa of the lacuna shows that one syllable only has been coin. Though the reading of the name on lost. The connexion of the two fragments seems the coin is somewhat doubtful, I agree with to be, as I have already stated (Burgess, Arch. my learned friend on this point, as well as with Report, vol. V, p. 78), that the confidential respect to his identifications. I even believe that minister executed the charitable work on his discovery explains the true meaning of an- behalf of the queen (compare Banavasi Palt otherancient inscription, Kaņheri No. 11 (West), inscr. Archæolog. Survey, No. X, p. 100). If (which unfortunately is badly mutilated,) and the restorations are correct, it is perfectly clear allows us to determine what the near relation that V âsishthiputra Satakarni was ship (ad úrataya sashbandha) between Rudra. an Andhra king, and that his queen was the då man and the lord of the Dekhan Sa- daughter of a Kshatrapa. Combining this in. takarni was, of which the Junagadh in- formation with Pandit Bhagyanlal's discovery, scription speaks. Kaņheri No. 11 runs, accord- that Chatura panal Vâsishthiputra ing to Pandit Bhagvanlal's facsimile (Burgess, Såta karņi was Siriyana's father, and the Report, vol. V., Pl. li), as follows :
statement of the Junagadh inscription that 1. ... ... ... [V&] sishthiputrasya sri-Såta.
Såta karņi, the lord of the Dekhan, was [karn]i[s]ya devy&[h]Kárddamakavamsapra[bha). a relative of Mahakshatrapa Rudravây[&] mahakshatrapa-Ru . putry&[5] ...... då man, as well as the fact that Siriya ia
2.............v[i]ývasyasya amâtyasya on the Sopârâ coin imitated the coinage of Baterakasya pântyabhájanam deyadharma[h/l] the Kshatrapas, I believe that the following
"Of the queen of.... Vâsisht hiputra inferences may be drawn from these premises :* By the Tables in Brown's Carnatic Chronology, transliteration Chatushpama does not soom to me accepthowever, Saks 896 was the Bhava samvatsara, and the
able. It is very probable that the word Chaurachindho Srimukha samvatsara was Saka 895. 1.e., Manayya.
or Chauravindho, which Hemachandra in his Defikosha * I leave this name in its Prakrit form, because the
mentions as a synonym of saldhana, denotes the same
person. Sanskrit equivalent is not clear to me. Bhagv&nlal's
