[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.s3.153 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.153 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.153 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.153) Ptolemy died in A.D. 163, and is said to have written his work after A.D. 151. Puḷumâyi, therefore, must have been on the throne some time before this last date. We will now proceed to reconcile this date with those mentioned in the inscriptions, and to determine more particularly the date of Puḷumâyi’s accession. Some of Ushavadâta’s benefactions were founded in the years 40, 41 and 42, and the latest date connected with Nahapâna is that in the inscription of his minister Âyama at Junnar, viz., 46. These dates should, I think, be referred to the Śaka era. For, we have seen that before the time of Gotamîputra, the country was subject to the inroads of Śakas and other foreign tribes, and the Scythians who are identified with the Śakas had, according to the Greek geographers, established a kingdom in Sind and even in Râjputâna. The era known by the name of the Śaka and referred to in all the early copper-plate grants as the Śaka king or kings must have been established by the most powerful of the Śaka invaders,¹ who for the first time obtained a permanent footing in the country, and Nahapâna and Chashtana¹ or his father must have been his Satraps appointed to rule over Western India, and Mâlvâ. On this supposition the latest date of Nahapâna must correspond to A.D. 124. Gotamîputra or Pulumâyi therefore must have acquired possession of this country after that year. The earliest date of Pulumâyi occurring in the inscriptions is the second year of his reign; and since the inscription could not have borne that date if Nahapâna or his successors had been in power, it is clear that Pulumâyi began to reign after the overthrow of the latter. Now, we also learn from Ptolemy that Tiastenes reigned at Ozene about the time when he wrote, and was therefore a contemporary of Pulumâyi. Tiastenes has, I think, been reasonably identified with Chashtana. But according to the Junâgad inscription noticed above, Chashtana's grandson Rudradâman was the reigning prince in the year 72, which, taking the era to be the Saka, is 150 A.D. Chashtana and Pulumâyi therefore could not have been contemporaries in 150 A.D. Ptolemy's account must, in consequence, refer to a period much earlier, i.e. to about the year 132 A.D., since about eighteen or twenty years at least must be supposed to have elapsed between the date of his information when Chashtana was on the throne and the year 150 A.D. when his grandson was in possession of it, his son Jayadâman having occupied it for some time in the interval. Again, in the nineteenth year of Pulumâyi, Gotamîputra was in possession, according to the large inscription at Nâsik, of a good many of those provinces which, according to the Junâgad inscription, were conquered and ruled over by Rudradâman. The date 72 in the inscription seems to refer to the being swept away by a storm and excessive rain of the dyke on one side of the lake therein mentioned and not to the cutting of the inscription on the rock. So that it is doubtful whether Rudradâman had conquered those - [Previous: c8.s3.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.152) - [Next: c8.s3.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.154) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) ## Linked texts (2) - [Nāsik](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nasik) - [Junnar](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.junnar) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.153) · Pramāṇa