Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c24.s1: § 80. Kṣatrapas of Surāṣṭra
Indische Paläographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c24.s1
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§ 80. Kṣatrapas of Surāṣṭra
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— The first member of this family, whom C. regards as the founder of the Śaka era (CMI. p. 3) was *Caṣṭana* (**Plate III, 2**), who was, probably, for some time contemporary with Nahapāna, and, perhaps, had like him a Śaka origin.
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Bh.JRAS. 1890, p. 644, wrongly reading *Cutsa* instead of *Cukhsa* on the Taxila copper-plate (v. sup. § 33) sees in this tribal name the origin of the name Caṣṭana.
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His territory would seem to have been originally in W.Rajputana, and subsequently to have included Mālwa (capital Ujjain).
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Bh.JRAS. 1890, p. 644; Bhand., Hist. Dek. p. 28.
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After Nahapāna, the territory of these satraps probably embraced the districts originally governed by Nahapāna and Caṣṭana separately. The suzerainty of the Andhras was, apparently, alternately successfully disputed and reasserted during the reigns of the first two satraps, Caṣṭana and Jayadāman. The distinction between the titles mahākṣatrapa and kṣatrapa on these earliest coins may be thus explained --- Caṣṭana originally a simple kṣatrapa becomes a mahākṣatrapa, while his successor bears only the inferior title (Bh.JRAS. 1890, p. 645). The independence of this dynasty seems to have been permanently established by the third satrap, *Rudradāman*, who boasts, in his Junāgaḍh inscr., of having twice conquered the Sātakarṇi king of the Deccan, and of having won for himself the title of mahākṣatrapa (*svayamabhigata-mahākṣatrapanāmnāḥ*). After the time of Rudradāman, as is proved by the coin-dates, the reigning sovereign is regularly styled mahākṣatrapa; and the the heir apparent, who governed some portion of the kingdom as viceroy, is styled kṣatrapa.