Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c12.4

c12.4

Thus then, the names occurring in the inscriptions and on the coins as well as the order sufficiently agree with those given in the Purâṇas under the Andhrabhṛitya dynasty to justify us in believing that the kings mentioned in both are the same There is, however, no trace of Chatushparṇa Sâtakarṇi unless we are to identify him with Chaṇḍasrî Sâtakarṇi The name Mâḍharîputra Sakasena also does not occur in the Purâṇas, and he appears to have belonged to a branch of the dynasty We shall hereafter assign to him his place in the list Simuka, whose name occurs in the Nânâghât inscription, and who, as I have already observed, was an earlier occupant of the throne than the reigning prince Sâtakarṇi the third in the Purâṇic list, must be the same as Śiśuka, the founder of the dynasty For the Devanâgarî *ma* is often so carelessly written as to look like *sa*, hence the true Simuka was corrupted to Siśuka, Śisuka, or Śisuka, in the course of time The Sindhuka of the Vâyu and the Sipraka of the Vishṇu are further corruptions This identification is rendered probable also by the consideration that he who caused the cave to be constructed, and the statues of himself and the younger princes to be carved, might, to give dignity to his race, be expected to get the founder of the dynasty also represented there, especially as he was removed only one degree from him In this manner the Andhrabhṛitya dynasty of the Purâṇas is the same as the Sâtavâhana dynasty of the inscriptions