[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.s3.141 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.141 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.141 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.141](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.141) The first thing that will strike one on looking at the list given at the end of the last section, is that the name Kshaharâta Nahapâna is not Indian but foreign. The title Kshatrapa or Mahâkshatrapa also used in the case of. that king, is not Indian, though it is the Sanskritised form of a foreign one, very likely the Persian Satrap. From the statement in the inscription of Gotamîputra that he destroyed the Śakas, Yavanas, and Pahlavas, it appears that the country was at that time very much exposed to the inroads of these foreigners. Yavanas were the Bactrian Greeks, but Kshaharâta Nahapâna does not look a Greek name. He must, therefore, have been either a Śaka or Pahlava. Again, we are told that Gotamîputra left no remnant of the race of Khagârâta or Khakhârâta which name seems to be the same as Kshaharâta or Khaharâta as it is spelled in the Kârli and Junnar inscriptions. It follows, therefore, that the Śakas or Pahlavas made themselves masters of the country some time between the second king in the above list and Gotamîputra Śâtakarṇi, and that they were driven out by Gotamîputra who, by thus recovering the provinces lost to his dynasty, re-established, as stated in the inscription, the glory of the Śâtavâhana race to which he belonged. All the other kings named above belonged to that dynasty. - [Previous: c8.s3.140](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.140) - [Next: c8.s3.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.142) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) ## Cites (2) - [Junnar](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.junnar) - [Karli](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.karli) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.141](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.141) · Pramāṇa