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Satyanāga.
H. C. Raychaudhari's allusion to a Sarvanäga ruler of antarvedi or the Gangetic Doab and Airikina in Eastern Malwa, being a Viṣayapati continuing as late as the time of Skandagupta can afford cue to the surmise that he may be a descendent of Satyanaga who fought as general of Sridharavarman against Samudragupta, Śrutavarmā as a scion of Sridharavarman having been smashed at Eran this Sarvanāga or some person of the same stock could have replaced Śrutavarmā. Raychaudhari also alludes to a Kota tribe in Nilagiri R. K. Mookarji and H. C. Raychaudhari refer to Sridharavarman as a Saka chieftain Mahädan.danayaka, son of Nandi ruling in about 319 A.D. as per Sănci inscription discovered by Marshall67. H. C. Raychaudhari and S. Chattopadhayaya name the father of Sridharavarman as Nanda.. S. Chattopadhayaya refers to this record as Kanakhera record near săñcī also referred to by Dr. Budh Prakash". If Nanda may be considered a case of wrong deciphering in place of Nandi, Śridharavarman can be a son of Nandi of API line 21 who lined with Nagasena and Acyuta and before Balavarmā all taken as Nāgas the last one Balavarmā being given a sentiment of doubt as to the correct identification. Dr. Devendra Handa's" identification of a Rudrila of copper coins obtained from Rajasthāna [Sardarshahar] belonging to Sh. Babhut Mal Dugor's collection partitioned among his younger brother and two sons, with Rudradeva of API line 21, styled as coins of a New Naga King, we can easily take all the kings from Rudradeva to Balavarmā as Nāga Kings. If Śrīdharavarma is to be taken as son of Nandi, then he also comes to be known as Näga king. But the alliance of Śridharavarman with Näga General satyanāga can easily afford cue to the point of taking Śrutavarmā also as a naga or a Śaka alligned with Nāga family striving to dethrone Samudragupta but meeting his doom eventually. Svarṇacuda of Mṛttikāvati (Mārttikāvata -Salvapura having Sobhnagar as a principal town identified as area comprising of Jodhpura, Jaipur and Alwar)", a country of Bhojas having Bhojajkata as their capital of Vidarbha 6 miles to the South east of Bhilsa (Vidiśa), mentioned in the cammaka prasasti of Pravarasena II Vākāṭaka73 (410.440 A.D.) a scion of the väkätakas of Nandivardhana (Nagardhan alias Nandardhan) shifted from Purikā", the earliest VākāṭakaCapital, Vākātakas being called Bhojas's has been referred to only by Sir Monier Williams in his Sanskrit English dictionary p 1282 as the name of a King without specific nomenclature "Amalātikā" to INVSE says:
Earlier in Mṛttikāvati, a town, a king named Svarna cûda desirous of
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