Indian Antiquary Vol 47

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[JUNE, 1918
It is worth noting that in this second class of coins, i.e. those re-struck by Sata karņi, there was not a single one belonging to any prince other than Nahapana, as would certainly have been expected if any such ruler had really intervened between them, especially as these coins numbered upwards of 8,000. I think, the evidence supplied by this hoard is conclusive that Satakarni destroyed Nahapana.
The extent of Gautamiputra's territory may be inferred from the description given of him in the big Nasik Cave inscription referred to above. Therein he is said to have been king of the following countries
1. Asika. - This country has been mentioned by Varahamihira, but he does not tell us where exactly it was situated.
2. A saka.—This evidently is Assaka, the Prên kệit form of the Sansksit Asmaka. This must be the country watered by the lower Godavari, consisting of the south-east parts of the Nizam's Dominions and the Godavari District of the Madras Presidency.' Its capital Potana or Potali has been mentioned in the Pali literature. + - 3. Mulaka—is the country with Pratishthâna or Paithan as its capital.
4. Suratha-is Sur ishtra, corresponding to modern Kâhiawar. 5. Kukura-probably modern Gujarat.5
6. A paranta.—The word literally means the Western End. Ptolemy, who was contemporaneous with Gautamiputra and Pulumâvi divides Ariakes (ABapatikn=Aparântika) into four sections, two on the seaboard and two situated inland. Of those on the 8ea-coast the northern corresponded to the Thânâ and Kolâbî Districts and the southern to the Ratnagiri and North Kanara Districts. Of the inland parts the northern was very nearly coincident with the country watered by the upper Godavari, and the southern included the Kanarese-speaking districts of the Bombay Presidency. Both the northern sections belonged to the Sadinon (=Satavahanas).
7. Anúpa.-A district on the Upper Narmada with Mahishamati as capital.? MAhish mati has been identified with Mandhâtâ in the north-west corner of the Central Provinces. 8
8. Vidabha-is of course Vidarbha. It corresponds to the western portion of Berars and the valley-country west of it.
9. Akaravanti-Malwa. I take this whole as one name. This is clearly indicated by the fact that in the Junagadh inscription it is qualified by the word Púrvapara, which means both the eastern and western divisions of the Akarâvanti country, and not the eastern
3 In the Sutta-nipata (V. 977) the Assaka (Asmaka) country has been associated with Mulaka, exactly as it has been done in this inscription. In the edition of the Sutta-nipå ta by V. Fausboll the reading Alakao is wrongly adopted in the text (Vs. 977 and 1010-1), and the variant Mulaka noticed in the foot-notes. The Sutta-nipåta distinctly tells us that the capital of Mulaka was Patitthâna (Paithan) and that Assaka was situated immediately to its south along the river Godavari.
4 Jåt. III, 3 and 15. 6 Sir Ramkrishna Bhandarkar identifies it with that portion of Rajputând which is called Kiu-cho-lo by Hiouen Thsang (Yuan Chwang) (Trans. Inter. Or. Cong., 1874, 312-3; EHD., 17, n. 4). According to Pandit Bhagwân lål it denotes "probably part of East Rajputana" (B. G., I, i. 36 n. 7). But as in this and Rudradêman's Junagadh inscription Kukura is associated with Aparanta, it seems to be part of Gujarat. & Above XIII, 325-7 and 366-7.
Trane. Inter. Or. Cong., 1874, 313. S JRAS., 1910, 445-6.
. Pargiter, Mdrkandeya-Purdņa, 335.