History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c15.s3.7

c15.s3.7

73. The system of the Vākāṭaka imperial organization was to have sons and other relations as rulers over different provinces, a system borrowed from the Nāga Empire. The Purāṇas here are specially full. They say that four sons of Pravarasena became rulers and that there were three dynasties of relations by marriages and one dynasty of their descendants, over four centres—Māhiṣī, Mekalā, Kosalā and Vidūra.² Māhiṣī here is the Māhishmatī on the Narbada between the British district of Nimar and the Nimar zilla of the Indore State.³ It was the capital of the province of Western