[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s3.105 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.105 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.105 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.105](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.105) Next in order come the inscriptions in which certain kings of the names of Gotamīputra Sātakarṇi and Puḷumāyi are mentioned. In the longest of the four occurring in the cave-temple at one extremity of the hill at Nāsik, we are told that in the nineteenth year of the reign of king Puḷumāyi, the son of Vāsiṣṭhī, the cave was caused to be constructed and dedicated for the use of Buddhist mendicants of the Bhadrāyaṇīya sect by Gotamī, the mother of king Sātakarṇi Gotamīputra. She is there called "the mother of the great king and the grandmother of the great king." Gotamīputra is spoken of as king of kings and ruler of Asīka, Asmaka, Mūḷaka,³ Surāshṭra, Kukura, Aparānta, Anūpa, Vidarbha and Akarāvanti.⁴ He was the lord of the mountains Vindhyāvat, Pāriyātra, Sahya, Kṛishṇagiri, Malaya, Mahendra, Sreshṭhagiri, and Chakora. His orders were obeyed by a large circle of kings, and his feet were adored by them. His beasts of burden drank the waters of the three seas. He protected all who sought an asylum with him, and regarded the happiness and misery of his subjects as his own. He paid equal attention to the three objects of human pursuit, viz., duty, worldly prosperity, and the satisfaction of desires, appointing certain times and places for each. He was the abode of learning, the support of good men, the home of glory, the source of good manners, the only person of skill, the only archer, the only hero, the only protector of Brāhmans. He conferred upon Brāhmans the means of increasing their race, and stemmed the progress of the confusion of castes. His exploits rivalled those of Rāma, Keśava, Arjuna, and Bhīmasena, and his prowess was equal to that of Nabhāga, Nahusha, Janamejaya, Sagara, Yayāti, Rāma, and Ambarīsha. He was descended from a long line of kings. He vanquished the host of his enemies in innumerable battles, quelled the boast and pride of Kshatriyas, destroyed the S'akas, Yavanas, and Pahlavas, left no trace or remnant of the race of Khagārāta, and re-established the glory of the Sātavāhana family. In the last line of the inscription mention - [Previous: c8.s3.104](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.104) - [Next: c8.s3.106](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.106) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.105](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.105) · Pramāṇa