History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c22.31

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Vākāṭakas as their over-lord. Just before that they appear to be absolutely independent. It must have been they and the Saurāṣṭras who drove the Śaka Satrap out of that part of the country. The Purāṇic history of the Abhīra kingdom (rise about 248 A.D., § 164, p. 170 above) stands confirmed by Paikuli which records the Abīrán Śáh as an important sovereign in 293-294. Their appearance in the time of Samudra Gupta (350 A.D.) as a republic shows that under Pravarasena I the Abhīra monarchy came to an end, about 300-310 A.D., when the Province of Malwa came under the Vākāṭaka House. Their individuality was preserved in the form of their republican government. This history leaves no room for a Śaka Satrap in Koṅkaṇa, Kathiawāḍ, Gujarat, and Malwā in 293-300 A.D. The Śaka had been pushed out to Cutch-Sindh before 293 A.D.