Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c13.29.1

c13.29.1

If the twenty-eight years assigned to Puḷumâyi in the Mâtsya Purâna are to be reckoned from the year of Gotamîputra's death, he must be considered to have begun to reign at Dhanakaṭaka in A. D. 154, and to have ceased in A. D. 182. He reigned at Paiṭhan from A. D. 130 to A. D. 154, that is, for about twenty-four years, and we have seen that the latest year of his reign recorded in the inscriptions at Nâsık and Kârlı is the twenty-fourth. Altogether then his reign lasted for fifty-two years. But if the twenty-eight include the twenty-four for which he ruled at Paiṭhaṇ, he must have died in 158. This supposition looks very probable. He was succeeded by Śıvasrî, whose coin found in the Tailangana districts has been described by Mr. Thomas in the *Indian Antiquary*, Vol. IX., p. 64.