The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.90

c5.90

113 Gautamīputra Śātakarṇi, Andhra. Two inscriptions of his occur at Nāsik dated in the years 14 and 24 respectively. He was contemporary with Nahapāna, the Kshaharāta, whom he overthrew shortly before the fourteenth year of his own reign, and after the forty-sixth year of the Kshatrapa or Śaka era, probably therefore about A.D. 126. The inscription at Nāsik dated in the nineteenth year of his son Puḷumāyi, calls Gautamīputra Śātakarṇi the king of Asika, Asaka, Muḷaka, Surāshṭra, Kukura, Aparānta, Anūpa, Vidarbha, Ākara, and Avanti, and lord of the mountains Vindhya, Rikshavat, Pāripātra, Sahya, Krishnagiri, Macha, 113 Siriṭana, Malaya, Mahendra, Seṭagiri, and Chakora. It also states that he humbled the pride of the Kshatriyas, destroyed the Śakas, Yavanas, and Pahlavas, exterminated the Kshaharāta race, and restored the glory of the Sātavāhanas. This is perhaps an allusion to a previous conquest of some of the Andhra territories by Nahapāna, and to their recovery by Gautamīputra. Some of the places enumerated in Puḷumāyi’s inscription as being subject to his father, belonged, as Rishabhadatta’s inscriptions seem to show, to Nahapāna. The Vāyu and Matsya Purāṇas assign Gautamīputra a reign of twenty-one years.—Refs. under B.C. 180.