The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.179

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If the twenty-eight years assigned to Puḷumāyi in the Mātsya Purāṇa are to be reckoned from the year of Gotamīputra’s death, he must be considered to have begun to reign at Dhanakaṭaka in A.D. 154 and to have ceased in A.D. 182. He reigned at Paiṭhaṇ from A.D. 130 to A.D. 154, that is, for about twenty-four years, and we have seen that the latest year of his reign recorded in the inscriptions at Nâsik and Kârli is the twenty-fourth. Altogether then his reign lasted for fifty-two years. But if the twenty-eight include the twenty-four for which he ruled at Paiṭhaṇ, he must have died in 158. This supposition looks very probable. He was succeeded by S’ivaśrī, whose coin found in the Tailangaṇa districts has been described by Mr. Thomas in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. IX., p. 64. He appears to have been Puḷumāyi’s brother, since he also is styled on the coin Vāsithīputa, i. e., Vāsisṭhīputra, or the son of Vāsisṭhī. He had a reign of seven years and must have died in A.D. 165. S’ivaskanda was the next king, to whom also seven years have been assigned. There is no trace of these two princes on this side of the country; while the name of the next, Yajña S’rī, occurs frequently as we have seen in inscriptions and coins. He appears to have been Puḷumāyi’s immediate successor at Paiṭhaṇ. His full name was Gotamīputra Yajña S’rī Sātakarṇi, and he is, as observed before, the Gotamīputra of the Kolhāpur coins. Some copies of the Mātsya assign him twenty-nine years, others nine, and twenty, and the Vāyu, twenty-nine; while the Brahmāṇḍa allows him nineteen. Probably he reigned in Mahārāshṭra for eighteen or nineteen years, since the sixteenth year of his reign is his latest recorded date, and for twenty-nine years at Dhanakaṭaka since, according to our supposition, the Vāyu Purāṇa gives an account of the Dhanakaṭaka branch and his coins are found in Tailangaṇa. And this is confirmed by what we have already said. Puḷumāyi reigned at Dhanakaṭaka for four years and his two successors for fourteen. All this while, i. e., for eighteen years, Yajña S’rī was ruler of Mahārāshṭra. He must thus have ceased to reign in the last country in about A.D. 172 and died in about A.D. 202. The next three reigns lasted, according to the Vāyu, for sixteen years. No trace of any of these has yet been found on this side of the country; but coins of Chandra S’rī are found near the original seat of government, and two of these are described by Mr. Thomas in the paper mentioned above. Thus the