Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c13.26

c13.26

If then we take the account in the Vâyu Purâna to refer to the main branch of the dynasty and consequently generally correct, the period that intervened between the rise of the Sâtavâhanas *or* Andhrabrityas and the end of the reign of Sivasvâtı is 206 years¹³ The dynasty must, as we have seen, have been founded in B C 73, wherefore the end of Sivasvâtı's reign and the accession of Gotamîputra must be placed in A D 133 We have seen that Puḷumâyı, whose capital was Paiṭhaṇ according to Ptolemy, and who from the inscriptions appears to have been king of this part of the country and to have reigned contemporaneously with his father, must have begun to reign at Paiṭhan about 130 A D The father and the son drove the foreigners from the Dekkan, and the son was established as the ruler of the regained provinces, Gotamîputra expecting to succeed to the throne at the original seat of the family Gotamîputra reigned for twenty-one years according to the Purânas, wherefore he must have died in 154 A D He was alive, as stated before, in the eighteenth year of Puḷumâyi, *i. e.* in 148, and also in the nineteenth when the cave temple was dedicated, and not alive in the twenty-fourth, *i. e.* in 154, according to the two inscriptions [34] mentioned before. Ptolemy's mention of Puḷumâyi I have already referred to about the year 132, so that, the date deduced from this source, and those derived from Gotamîputra's and Puḷumâyi's inscriptions at Nâsık and Rudradâman's at Junâgaḍ on the supposition that the era used in this last is the Śaka, as well as those derived from the Purâṇas may thus be shown to be consistent with each other. The dates of all the princes whose names we find in the inscriptions may therefore be thus arranged