The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.92

c8.s3.92

An inscription² in a small cave at Nâsik mentions that the cave was scooped out by the lieutenant at Nâsik of king Krishna of the Sâtavâhana race. In a cave at Nânâghât there is another, which is much mutilated and the purport of which consequently is not quite clear. In that same cave figures of persons are carved on the front wall, and the following names are inscribed over them : 1, Râyâ Simuka Sâtavâhano, *i. e.*, king Simuka Sâtavâhana ; 2, Devî Nâyanikâyâ raũño cha Siri Sâtakanino, *i. e.*, of queen Nâyanikâ and king Śrî Sâtakarṇi ; 3, Kumâro Bhâyâ, *i. e.*, prince Bhâyâ ; 4, Mahârathiganakayiro, *i. e.*, the heroic Marâṭhâ leader or the hero of the Marâṭhâ tribe ; 5, Kumâro Haku Siri, *i. e.*, prince Haku Śrî ; 6, Kumâro Sâtavâhano, *i. e.*, prince Sâtavâhana. Of these the second who has been mentioned along with his queen must have been the reigning prince, the first was an earlier king of the same