[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.bhandarkar-1884) › c12.2 # Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c12.2 Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c12.2 - **Language:** English ### [c12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.bhandarkar-1884.c12.2) THE first thing that will strike one on looking at the list given at the end of the last section, is that the name Kshaharâta Nahapâna is not Indian but foreign The title Kshatrapa or Mahâkshatrapa also used in the case of that king, is not Indian, though it is the Sanskritised form of a foreign one, very likely the Persian \*Satrap\* From the statement in the inscription of Gotamîputra that he destroyed the Śakas, Yavanas, and Pahlavas, it appears that the country was at that time very much exposed to the inroads of these foreigners Yavanas were the Bactrian Greeks, but Kshaharâta Nahapâna does not look a Greek name He must, therefore, have been either a Śaka or Pahlava Again, we are told that Gotamîputra left no remnant of the race of Khagârâta or Khakhârâta which name seems to be the same as Kshaharâta or Khaharâta as it is spelled in the Kârlı̂ and Junnar inscriptions It follows, therefore, that the Śakas or Pahlavas made themselves masters of the country some time between the second king in the above list and Gotamîputra Sâtakarṇi, and that they were driven out by Gotamîputra who, by thus recovering the provinces lost to his dynasty, re-established, as stated in the inscription, the glory of the Sâtavâhana race to which he belonged All the other kings named above belonged to that dynasty - [Previous: c12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.bhandarkar-1884.c12.1) - [Next: c12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.bhandarkar-1884.c12.3) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.bhandarkar-1884.c12) ## Linked texts (3) - [Junnar](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.junnar) - [Karli](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.karli) - [Nasik cave inscription (No. 16, N. 5) (ed. Hultzsch 1906)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.deccan.satavahana.nasik-no-16*hultzsch1906) — Prakrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.bhandarkar-1884.c12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.bhandarkar-1884.c12.2) · Pramāṇa