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264 EARLY BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
Nahapana the Kshaharata Satrap; and
Ushavadata, son of Dinika, his son-in-law ;
Siitakarni Gautamiputra, and his queen Vasishthi;
Sri Pudumayi Vasishthiputra;
Yajila Satakarni Gautamiputra; and
King Virasena, son of Sivadata the Abhira, who reigned on
certainly in the first centuries after Christ, though at what
dates has not yet been settled with certainty.
Several of these were " lords of Dhanakataka," that is, of the Andhra
dynasty, and at Nanaghat we have of the same race—Satavahana.,
his son Satakarni (Vedisri), and his sons, Kumara Satavahana,
Kumara Hakusiri, and Kumara Bhaya(Za). At Kanheri we have
some of the above and Sirisena Madhariputra;* and coins give his
name as well as those of the three last Satakarnis in the Nasik list.
Now Ptolemy (cir. a.d. 150) mentions a Siri Polemios of Paithana, who
may have been the Pudumayi of the above list; and Eudra Daman
in the Girnar inscription some time after the 72nd year (probably of
the Saka era, or a.d. 150) boasts of having defeated " Satakarni,
lord of Dakshinapatha." Which of the Satakarnis this was we have
no means of knowing for certain as yet, nor shall we be able to do
so till the chronology of the Andrabhritya kings is ascertained in
a more satisfactory manner than it is at present.
If the Krishnaraja of the inscriptions is the second of the
Pauranik lists, as there seems little reason for doubting, it may
fairly be assumed that the dynasty arose, as is generally supposed,
immediately before the Christian era. If, too, Hakusiri was the
excavator of the Chaitya cave at this place, which, from the long
inscription containing his name engraved on it, this seems nearly
certain, we gain from its architecture at least an approximate date
for the age in which he lived. It may have been excavated a few
years before, but as probably a few years after, the Christam era,
but cannot be removed from that epoch.
The fixation of the dates of the kings who reigned after the
Christian era is more difficult, owing to the paucity of the materia
available for the purpose. It is now generally admitted that
^ l Skandasvati of the Pauranik lists preceded Yajna Sri, and if Sivasri is the same .j
Srisena Madhariputra, he must be placed between these two; but we have no co
his nor any corresponding names in the inscriptions.
Nahapana the Kshaharata Satrap; and
Ushavadata, son of Dinika, his son-in-law ;
Siitakarni Gautamiputra, and his queen Vasishthi;
Sri Pudumayi Vasishthiputra;
Yajila Satakarni Gautamiputra; and
King Virasena, son of Sivadata the Abhira, who reigned on
certainly in the first centuries after Christ, though at what
dates has not yet been settled with certainty.
Several of these were " lords of Dhanakataka," that is, of the Andhra
dynasty, and at Nanaghat we have of the same race—Satavahana.,
his son Satakarni (Vedisri), and his sons, Kumara Satavahana,
Kumara Hakusiri, and Kumara Bhaya(Za). At Kanheri we have
some of the above and Sirisena Madhariputra;* and coins give his
name as well as those of the three last Satakarnis in the Nasik list.
Now Ptolemy (cir. a.d. 150) mentions a Siri Polemios of Paithana, who
may have been the Pudumayi of the above list; and Eudra Daman
in the Girnar inscription some time after the 72nd year (probably of
the Saka era, or a.d. 150) boasts of having defeated " Satakarni,
lord of Dakshinapatha." Which of the Satakarnis this was we have
no means of knowing for certain as yet, nor shall we be able to do
so till the chronology of the Andrabhritya kings is ascertained in
a more satisfactory manner than it is at present.
If the Krishnaraja of the inscriptions is the second of the
Pauranik lists, as there seems little reason for doubting, it may
fairly be assumed that the dynasty arose, as is generally supposed,
immediately before the Christian era. If, too, Hakusiri was the
excavator of the Chaitya cave at this place, which, from the long
inscription containing his name engraved on it, this seems nearly
certain, we gain from its architecture at least an approximate date
for the age in which he lived. It may have been excavated a few
years before, but as probably a few years after, the Christam era,
but cannot be removed from that epoch.
The fixation of the dates of the kings who reigned after the
Christian era is more difficult, owing to the paucity of the materia
available for the purpose. It is now generally admitted that
^ l Skandasvati of the Pauranik lists preceded Yajna Sri, and if Sivasri is the same .j
Srisena Madhariputra, he must be placed between these two; but we have no co
his nor any corresponding names in the inscriptions.