The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c31.58

v1.c31.58

In the satrapal system of government a Great Satrap was associated with a Satrap, usually his son, who succeeded to the higher dignity in due course. The earliest recorded ruler of this kind is Liaka Kusūlaka, who, according to the Takshaçilā copper-plate inscription of the year 78 (= c. 72 B.C.? *v. sup.* p. 570), was satrap of Chhahara and Chukhsa, districts which have not been identified, but which were presumably in the neighbourhood of Takshaçilā. His coins were imitated from those of Eucratides (Pl. VIII, 42). His son, Pātika, who made the deposit of relics which is commemorated by the inscription, bore no title at that time; but there can be little doubt that he must have succeeded his father first as satrap and afterwards as great satrap. His name with the higher title is among those inscribed on the Mathurā Lion-Capital (c. 30 B.C.?).