The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.173

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If then we take the account in the Vâyu Purâṇa to refer to the main branch of the dynasty and consequently generally correct, the period that intervened between the rise of the S'âtavâhanas or Andhrabhṛityas and the end of the reign of Sivasvâti is 206 years.¹ The dynasty must, as we have seen, have been founded in B.C. 73, wherefore the end of S'ivasvâti's reign and the accession of Gotamîputra must be placed in A.D. 133. We have seen that Puḷumâyi, whose capital was Paiṭhaṇ according to Ptolemy, and who from the inscriptions appears to have been king of this part of the country and to have reigned contemporaneously with his father, must have begun to reign at Paiṭhaṇ about 130 A.D. The father and the son drove the foreigners from the Dekkan, and the son was established as the ruler of the regained provinces, Gotamîputra expecting to succeed to the throne at the original seat of the family. Gotamîputra reigned for twenty-one years according to the Purâṇas, wherefore he must have died in 154 A.D. He was alive, as stated before, in the eighteenth year of Puḷumâyi, *i. e.* in 148, and also in the nineteenth when the cave temple was dedicated, and not alive in the twenty-fourth, *i. e.* in 154, according to the two inscriptions