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

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________________ GAUTAMIPUTRA SRI YAJÑA ŚĀTAKARŅI 497 indicates that the king referred to in the inscription is Pulumāyi I of the Purānas or some other prince of the dynasty who bore the same name. D. C. Sircar identifies him with the last king of Pargiter's list. Numismatic evidence suggests that the political influence of a Pulumāyi extended to the Coromandel coast, and possibly to the Chanda district of the Central Provinces. But in the absence of epigraphic corroboration the matter cannot be regarded as definitely proved. Moreover, the absence of the metronymic Vāsishthīputra makes it uncertain in some cases as to whether the son of the great Gautamiputra is meant. • Vāsishțhiputra Pulumāyi must have come to the throne some time after A. D. 130. He is known from a Karle epigraph to have ruled for at least 24 years, so that his reign terminated after A.D. 154. The successors of Pulomā according to the Purāņic lists compiled by Pargiter are Siva Sri' Pulomā and Sivaskanda (or Sivas kandha ) Śātakarņi. Yajñaéri Šātakarņi. 3 The immediate successor of Sivaskanda according to the collated text of Pargiter was Yajña Śri. If the Purānas are to be believed his accession took place more 1 Mirashi in the Journal of the Num. Soc. II (1940), p. 88 attributes to him the coins of "Sivasri Pulumāyi 111"' of the Tarbāla board. He draws a distinction between this king (who was a Pulumāyi) and Väsithiputa Sivasiri Satakamni who is known to Rapson's Catalogue. The Vishnu Purāna, however, represents Śivaấri as a śātakarņi (and not a Pulumāyi). The matter must, therefore, be regarded as sub judice. 2 Mirashi (ibid, 89) identifies him with King Sirikhada or Skanda Satakarni of the Tarhāla hoard (Akola district) and other coins whose name was wrongly read as Chada Sätakarņi by Smith and Rudra Satakarņi by Rapson. This ''Rudra'' was represented as a ruler of the Andhra-desa. 3 In JRAS, July, 1934, 560ff, Dr. D. C. Sircar suggests that the name of this king was Sri Yajña śātakarņi as stated in inscriptions, and not Yajña Śri (as stated in the Purāņas). It should, however, be remembered that Sri is here an honorific 0. P. 90--63

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