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

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________________ 496 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA coins. Sātakarņi is perhaps to be identified with Vāsishthiputra Śri sātakarņi of a Kanberi Cave Inscription, or with Vāsishthiputra Chatarapana śātakarņi of a Nānāghat record. His exact position in the genealogical list cannot be determined with precision. The Kanheri epigraph represents Vāsishthiputra Śri Sātakarņi as the husband of a daughter of the Mahākshatrapa Ru(dra). Rapson identifies this Rudra with Rudradāman I. There can hardly be any doubt that the sātavāhana king mentioned in the Kanheri record, or one of his close relations who bore a similar name, was identical with Sātakarni, lord of the Deccan. whom Rudradāman "twice in fair fight completely defeated, but did not destroy on account of the nearness of their connection." Dr. Bhandarkar's identification of Vāsishthiputra Sri Šātakarņi of Kanberi with Vāsishthīputra Śiva Sriśātakarņi of coins and Siva Sri of the Matsya Purāna cannot be regarded as more than a conjecture. The ruler mentioned in the Kanheri Inscription may have been a brother of Palumāyi. We have seen that the capital of Pulumāyi was Baithan, i.e., Paithan or Pratishthāna on the Godāvari, identified by Bhandarkar withi Navanara or Navanagara, i.e., the new city. Inscriptions and coins prove that the dominions of this king included the Krishņā-Godāvari region as well as Mahārāshtra. It has already been pointed out that the Andhra country is not clearly mentioned in the list of territories over which Gautamiputra held his sway. It is not altogether improbable that Vāsishthiputra Pulumāyi was the first to establish the śātavāhana power firmly in that region. Sukthankar identifies him with Siri Pulumāyi, king of the Sātavāhanas, mentioned in an inscription discovered in Adoni tāluk of the Bellary district. But the absence of the distinguishing metronymic makes the identification uncertain and probably

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