Book Title: Political History Of Ancient India
Author(s): Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta

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________________ 450 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA A fragmentary inscription found by Vogel on the site of Ganeshrā near Mathurā revealed the name of a Satrap of the Kshaharāta family called Ghatāka. The Nationality of the Northern Satraps. Cunningham held that the inscription P on the Mathurā Lion Capital-Sarvasa Salastanasa puyae-gave decisive proof that Rājuvula or Rājula, Sodāsa and other connected Satraps were of Saka nationality. Dr. Thomas shows, however, that the Satraps of Northern India were the representatives of a mixed Parthian and Saka domination. This is strongly supported a priori by the fact that Patika of Taxila, who bears himself a Persian name, mentions as his overlord the great king Moga whose name is Šaka. The inscriptions on the Lion Capital exhibit a mixture of Persian and Saka nomenclature. 2 Attention may, however, be called here to the fact that in the Harivaisa there is a passages which characterises the Pablavas or Parthians as "śmaśrudhārinah” (beardea). * Judged by this test, kings of the family of Rājuvula and Nahapāna, who are not unoften taken to be Parthians, could not have belonged to that nationality as their portraits found on coins 5 show no traces of beards and whiskers. They were, therefore, almost certainly Sakas. 1 JRAS., 1912, p. 121. 2 Ep. Ind., Vol. IX, pp. 138 ff.; JRAS, 1906, 215 f. For Sten Konow's views see Corpus, II. i. xxxvii. 3 1. 14, 17. 4 The passage is also found in the Vayu Purāna, Ch. 88, 141. 5 JRAS., 1913, between pp. 630-631.

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