Ancient History of the Deccan c3.s4.57

c3.s4.57

Lawrence P. Briggs, vanquished probably shortly before the year 150 A. D. It is probably after the death of Vâsudêva that they established themselves in the Mathurâ region. We have a stone inscription (Gupta Inscriptions, No. 58, Plate XXXVI, B) found at Bijayagadh [or Bêjêgaḍh, about two miles to the South West of Byânâ, the chief town of the Byânâ tahsil of the Bharatpur (Bhurtpoor) state in Râjputânâ] which has come to us from the Yaudhêyas and which enables us to know the geographical position of their empire. The alphabet of the inscriptions is intermediate between that of the last Kushâns and that of the first Guptas. We have also the coins of this dynasty (Cunningham, Coins of Anc. Ind. Pl. VI., 6-8); and the Yaudhêyas are mentioned in line 22 of the inscription on the pillar at Allâhâbâd (No. 1 of Gupta Inscriptions). The invasion of Samudragupta took place in the middle of the IV century. If we take nearly one century as the duration of the reigns of the Yaudhêyas and the Nâgas, we find that Vâsudêva ceased to reign before about 250 A. D. and that Kaṇishka came to the throne before about 150 A. D.