History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s1.t2.27
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c17.s1.t2.27
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170. According to the script of the inscriptions of the family of Chānti Siri, she lived in the third century. Bühler placed Vira Puriṣadata, who was nephew and son-in-law to Lady Chānti Siri, in the third century A.D.¹ The aśvamedha of King Chātamūla (I) seems to have been performed about 220 A.D., soon after the end of Caṇḍasāti, the last of the Imperial Sātavāhana dynasty in Andhra.² The same sacrifices were performed a few decades later by the Pallava king Śiva Skandavarman (Agniṭhoma, Vājapeya, Aśvamedha³), and with some Brahmanic additions and on a grander scale, by the Vākāṭaka Emperor Pravarasena I. The history of the North and the South here become interconnected.