The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.109

c5.109

350 Samudragupta, son of Chandragupta I. Numismatic evidence indicates the existence of a Kācha or Kacha, possibly another son of Chandragupta, who may have preceded Samudragupta. In the Allahabad pillar inscription the latter is said to have uprooted Achyuta and Nāgasena, to have captured and liberated Mahendra of Kosala, Vyāghrarāja of Mahākāntāra, Maṇṭarāja of Keraḷa, Mahendra of Piṣṭapura, Svāmidatta of Koṭṭāra (on the hill), Damana of Eraṇḍapalla, Viṣṇugopa of Kāñchī, Nilarāja of Avamukta, Hastivarman of Veṅgī, Ugrasena of Palakka, Kubera of Devarāṣṭra, Dhanañjaya of Kusthalapura, and all the other kings of the region of the south; to have exterminated Rudradeva, Matila, Nāgadatta, Chandravarman, Gaṇapatināga, Nandin, Balavarman, and many other kings of Āryāvarta; and to have overthrown the Daivaputras, Shāhis, Shāhānushāhis, Śakas, Muruṇḍas, and the people of Siṃhala, and all other dwellers in islands. His empire extended to, and perhaps embraced, the countries of Samataṭa, Davāka, Kāmarūpa, Nepāla, and Karṭripura, and the tribes of the Mālavas, Ārjunāyanas, Yaudheyas, Mādrakas, Abhīras, Prārjunas, Sanakānīkas, Kākas, Kharaparikas, and others. His wife was Dattadevī.—CI. iii, 1–21.