The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.132

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The Gotamîputa must be Gotamîputra Yajña Śâtakarṇi of the inscriptions; for the father of Puḷumayi did not reign on this side of the country, as none of the inscriptions are dated in his reign though his exploits are described in the Nâsik Caves. Madharîputa must have come after Gotamîputa and not after Vâsiṭhîputa, as is maintained by some scholars; for his viceroy was a different person from that of the other two. The fact that these two had the same viceroy shows that one of them immediately succeeded the other. Another prince with a different viceroy could not come between them. In the stûpa dug out at Supârâ, Paṇḍit Bhagavânlâl found a silver coin in a copper casket. On the obverse of the coin, which bears a well-shaped head of the king, we have the legend Rañño Gotamiputasa Siri Yañña Śâtakanisa, which means "[this coin is] of the king Gotamîputra Śrî Yajña Śâta, karṇi." This therefore is the prince in whose name the coin was issued. There is another legend on the reverse which though some of the letters are not distinct appears to be Gotamiputa-Kumâru-Yañña-Śâtakani-Chaturapanasa the sense of which is "[this coin is] of Chaturapana Yajña Śâtakarṇi, prince of Gotamîputa."¹ The coin was thus like the Kolhâpur coins issued in the names of two persons; of whom Yajña Śrî Śâtakarṇi was the reigning sovereign, as his name appears round the bust, and Chaturapana who was his son represented him as viceroy in the province in which the coin was issued, and which from the shape and get-up of the coin appears to have been once ruled over by the Kshatrapas of Ujjayinî or Kâṭhiâwâḍ.