[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933) › c16.s2.52 # History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c16.s2.52 History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c16.s2.52 - **Language:** English ### [c16.s2.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c16.s2.52) to the Talagunda inscription \[E.I., 8, 35\] Kaṅga performed ‘lofty great exploits in terrible wars and his diadem was shaken by the Chauris of his provincial feudatories’. Kaṅga was defeated by the Vākāṭaka king Pṛithivīsheṇa I and he abdicated.¹ Kanaka here seems to be a Sanskritisation of the Tamil Kaṅga. Another reading of the Purāṇic name, in the Viṣṇu, is Kāṇa.² It seems that on assumption of imperial power he was by Pṛithivīsheṇa, who was at that time a feudatory of Samudra Gupta, brought to book, and his abdication was evidently a consequence of his imperial ambition and failure. - [Previous: c16.s2.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c16.s2.51) - [Next: c16.s2.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c16.s2.53) - [Up: c16.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c16.s2) ## Linked texts (2) - [Epigraphia Indica](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ei) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c16.s2.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c16.s2.52) · Pramāṇa