Indian Antiquary Vol 47

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

Page 73

MARCK, 1918 )
DEKKAN OF THE SATAVAHANA PERIOD
that harbour an English Packet homeward bound, but from whence dispatched is not known to us, nor the name of the ship. We direct that you make a strict and particular enquiry, whether any and who of our servants or persons under our protection were concerned in the above ship bought by Mr Bolts or had any interest therein which occasioned ber condemnation, an also to make the most minute enquiry who of our servants or persons tinder our protection had any concerns or transactions in the promotion of any trade carried on by foreigners, or in furnishing them by any means with ships or vessels for the purpose of carrying on such trade or otherwise, General Letter from Fort St. George to the Court of Directors,
dated 31 August 1782.17 Upon Enquiry We found that the Ship Great Duke of Tuscany, mentioned in your Letter of the 29th August 1781, had been loaded and dispatched by Mr Bolts from Bengal directly to Europe and did not touch at this place. But as We wished to put your Commands in Effect to their extreme Extent, We ordered the Sea Customer's Books to be examined to discover whether any Persons living under the Compeny's Protection had been concerned in shipping goods in the vessels that were in this Port in 1780 under the Direction of Mr Bolts. The names of some European inhabitants now residing here were in consequence reported to be found as having shipped Merchandize on them, and We thought proper to call on those Persons to acquaint Us if they had acted upon this Occasion on their own Account or on the Account of others, and of whom. They have in answer declared a total ignorance of the whole transaction except in one instance of a very trifling Quantity, and that their names had probably been made use of by their Servants. We shall however make every possible further Enquiry into this Business for your Satisfaction.
(To be continued.)
DEKKAN OF THE SATAVAHANA PERIOD. BY PROF. D. R. BHANDARKAR, M.A. ; CALCUTTA.
CHAPTER I.
POLITICAL HISTORY. THERE is hardly anybody in the Dekkan who has not heard of Satavahana, or Salivahana as he is popularly known. Curiously, however, Salivahana or Satavahana is supposed to be the name, not of a royal family as it ought to be, but of an individual king. Various traditions are known about the birth of this prince and the origin of his name Satavahana. Somadeva in his Kathasaritsågara 1 tells us that he was the son of a Yaksha named Sata from the daughter of a sage. The union of this couple was not liked by the Rishis, and through the curse of the latter the former became a lion and lioness. When the son was born, the latter died and assumed her previous body. The son thereafter was one day being carried on his back by the lion father, and while the latter dismounted and the former went to the bank of a river close by to quench his thirst, a king called Dipakarņi slew him with an arrow whereupon he at once became a Yaksha again. And because the boy was being carried by the Yaksha Såta, he was styled Satavahana, (Sataḥ vâhanah yasya sah.) Jinaprabhasûri in his Tirtha-kalpa,2 gives a different account. In Pratishthâna or Paithan in Nizam's Dominions there lived two Brâhman brothers in the house of a potter with their young
. * Madras Letters Received, vol. XI.
1 VI. 87 & ff.
? JBBRAS., X. 132.