A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.126

v1.c7.126

Professor Bhandarkar is of opinion that Nahapāna was eventually overthrown by Gautamīputra and his son Pulumayi about A.D. 126, that they came from the south-east to regain the provinces lost to their family and re-established their power over the north-west part of Mahārāshtra. Not content with this, they also turned their arms against the foreign Kshatrapa dynasty, which came immediately after Nahapāna and seized their dominions about A.D. 145. Between this date and A.D. 150, Rudradāman succeeded in reconquering these dominions. Gautamīputra Sātakarni and his son, Pulumayi, reigned conjointly, the former over the hereditary Sātavāhana dominions or Āndhradēsa, and the latter over Mahārāshtra. Rudradāman, when he reconquered the Kshatrapa territory, did not utterly destroy Gautamīputra Sātakarni, as the latter’s son Vasisthiputra Sātakarni was Rudradāman’s son-in-law.