A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.23

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⁵ [Since Grant Duff's time archaeological and historical researches have proved that Western India formed part of the empire of the Mauryan Asoka (273-32 B.C.). About 230 B.C. arose the Āndhra (Sātavāhana) dynasty, whose most powerful representative, Gautamīputra Yajna Srī, conquered Nahapāna, a western Satrap (Kshaharāta) ruling in the western Ghāts. Western India was ruled by two distinct dynasties of foreign Saka (Scythian) princes, using the title of Great Satrap, the most successful of the later dynasty being Rudradāman, who recovered Nahapāna's provinces in c. A.D. 128 and became master of the country, with his capital at Ujjain. In A.D. 395 Chandragupta II conquered western India. After him came the Chālukyas (550-753) of whom Pulakesin (608-42) was the greatest; the Rāshtrakūtas