The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c31.60

v1.c31.60

Among the names of contemporary Çaka governors mentioned in the inscriptions of the Lion Capital is found that of Pātika, now a great satrap, who during the reign of Maues made the benefaction recorded in the Takshaçilā copper-plate (year 78 of the era of Seistān = c. 72 B.C.?). At that time he was a private individual without any official title. It may be assumed that in due course he succeeded his father in the administration of Chhahara and Chukhsa. When the Lion Capital was inscribed, he was a great satrap and contemporary with the Great Satrap Rañjubula (Rājūla) of Mathurā. If a period of about forty years may be allowed for his whole official career, the date of the Lion Capital may be given provisionally as c. 30 B.C.; and we may tabulate the chronology of the two satrapal families as follows¹:—