[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Indian Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965) › c16.s2.46 # Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.46 Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.46 - **Language:** English ### [c16.s2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.46) The Śātavāhana kings generally called themselves \*Rājan\* and sometimes also \*Svāmin\* which was adopted probably after their contact with the Śaka kings of Western India.⁴ But king Gautamīputra Śātakarṇi is once called \*Rājarāja\* in his son's inscription.⁵ In the same record, the mother of Gautamīputra Śātakarṇi and the grandmother of his son Vāsiṣṭhīputra Puḷumāvi is described as \*Mahārāja-mātā\* and \*Mahārāja-pitāmahī\*. This shows that the title \*Mahārāja\* was known in the South as early as the second century A.D., although it was not yet quite popular.⁶ - [Previous: c16.s2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.45) - [Next: c16.s2.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.47) - [Up: c16.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.46) · Pramāṇa