Ancient History of the Deccan c3.s5.32

c3.s5.32

In the above chronology we have admitted that Rudradâman was the contemporary of a series of three kings:
(1) Vâsisthiputra Śiva Śri,
(2) Mâdhariputra Sivaskanda,
(3) Gautamiputra Yajña Śri. But some coins found in the Kolhapur region (Rapson, pages 5, 7, 14) have restrucks which enables us to settle the following series:
(1) Vâsisthiputra Vilivâyakura,
(2) Mâdhariputra Sivalakura,
(3) Gautamiputra Vilivâyakura, Can these two series be identified? It is to be remarked that:
(1) The first names, Vâsisthiputra, Mâdhariputra, Gautamiputra, prove nothing, as we know that these names indicate a Gôtra and the custom of prefixing to the real name of a person the name of his mother's Gôtra has been in existence in the dynasties of the neighbours of the Śâtavâhanas (the Âbhiras, the Chuṭus, the Ikshvâkus). There then remain the second names, and they, Vilivâyakura and Sivalakura, have not been found in authentic Śâtavâhana inscriptions.
(2) The coins bear as symbols "bow and arrow" in place of the Ujjain symbol of the coins of Śâtavâhanas.
(3) Again, these coins have been found only in the Kolhapur region; and Ptolemy says, that at Hippokura, in a country which may be situated approximately in this part of the Deccan, there reigned a king named Baleokuros, who, many authors have believed, can be identified with Vilivâyakura. This king will, in that case, be a contemporary of Puḷumâvi and belong to another dynasty. I think therefore that these coins may be provisionally admitted to belong to the "Kolhapur Dynasty." Some coins bearing the names of Śri Rudra Śâtakarṇi and Śri Kṛishṇa Śâtakarṇi have been found (see Rapson, Coins of Indian Museum; Ândhra dynasty) in the Chanda district of the Central Provinces. As these names have been found only in this region, we may suppose that these kings belonged to a peculiar dynasty that subsisted for some time in the Chanda district, when the Śâtavâhanas had been replaced by the Chuṭus, the Nâgas, the Pallavas, the Ikshvâkus and the Bṛihatphalâyanas.