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GENEALOGY OF THE VĀKĀTAKAS OF VISHNUVRIDDHA GOTRA
Vindhyasakti I (twice-born ) Mahārāja Pravarasena 1.' Bhavanāga, King of the Bhāra
śivas (Padmāvati?)? Sarvasena*
Gautamiputra---daughter Vindhyasakti II Samudra Gupta Mahārāja Rudrasena I (Deotek)
Dharma-Mabārāja (Vatsagulma or Basin Mahārājadhiräia
in S. Berar) Chandra Gupta II Mahārāja Prithivisheņa I
Pravarasena II ?
Prabhāvati-Mahārāja Rudrasena II Agra-Mahishi
son
| Pravarasena II ? (or III) Yuvarāja Divākarasena Damodarasena Devasena Nandivardhana
Rāmagiri Supratishthāhāra Ajjhitabhattārikā--Narendrasena Harishena
Princess of Kuntala his minister Hastibhoja
Prithivishena II
(Vembāra) "raised his sunken family!
pointed out by Mr. Mirashi that the Pattan plates of Pravarasena 11 ( year 27 ) refer to a Kālidāsa as the writer of the charter Ep. Ind. xxiii (1935), pp. 81 ff. But the identity of the scribe with the great poet remains doubtful.
"It must not be understood that Sarvasena was necessarily the elder of the two brothers. The matter may be settled when further evidence is available.
i He performed four Aśvamedhas, and is styled a Mahārāja and Samrāj. His traditional capital Kāñchanakāpura recalls Hiranyapura (Hirapur ? SSE of Sāgar )of the Dudia plates (Ep. Ind. III. 258 ff). The splitting up of the name into Purikā and Chanakā seems hardly justifiable.
2 J. Num-Soc., v pt ii, p. 2. Coins and Identity of Bhavanāga (Altekar).
3 A dharma-vijayi whose kosa-danda-sadhana is said to have been accumulating for a hundred years.
4 Identified by some with Nagardhan near Ramtek (Hiralal Ins. No. 4; Tenth Or. Conf, p. 458) and by others with Nandapur, near Ghughusgarh, north-east of Ramtek (Wellsted, Notes on the Vākāțakas,) JASB, 1933, 160f.
5 Ruler of Pravarapura, Charmmānka and of following rājyas viz. Bhojakata (N. Berar), Arammi, (east of Berar) and of the Wardhā region. Pravarapura has been identified by some with Pavnār in Wardha District (JASB, 1933, 159).
6. His commands were honoured by rulers of Kosalā, Mekalā (at the source of the Nerbudda) and Mālava.
7 Credited with the conquest of Kuntala, Avanti, Kalinga, Kosala, Andhra Trikūța, Lāța,
