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508 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
was Pulunāyi. It is more probable that the defeated ruler was Vāsishthiputra Sātakarņi himself, who may have been a brother and a predecessor of Pulumāyi.
The Great Satrap also conquered the Yaudheyas, possibly of Johiya-bār along the Sutlej, who are known, from a stone inscription to have occupied also the Bijayagadh region in the Bharatpur state. If the Kusliān chronology accepted by us be correct, then he must have wrested Sindhu-Sauvira from one of the successors of Kanishka I.
Rudradāman apparently held his court at Ujjain, which is mentioned by Ptolemy as the capital of his grandfather Chashtana, placing the provinces of Anarta and Surāshțra under his Pahlava (Parthian) Amātya' Suvišākla. The Amātya constructed a new dam on the famous Sudarśana Lake which owed its origin to the "care bestowed by the Maurya government upon question of irrigation, even in the most remote provinces.”
The Great Kshatrapa is said to have gained fame by studying grammar (sabda ), polity (artha ), music (gandharva), logic (nyāya), etc. As a test of the civilised character of his rule it may be noted that he took and kept to the end of his life, the vow to stop killing men except in battle. The Sudarśana embankment was rebuilt and the lake reconstructed by "expending a great amount of money from his own treasury, without oppressing the people of the town and of the province by
1 With this bureaucratic designation is to be contrasted the title Rāja applied to Tushāspha, the local ruler of Surāshtra in the days of Asoka, who was more than a mere official' (IA., 7, 257 n.). While some of the Saka provinces or districts were placed under amātyas or officers whose functions were mainly of a civil character, others seem to have been governed by generals (Mahādandanāyaka). The name of such a military governor is disclosed by a Sanchi inscription (JASB, 1923, 343).
