Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c17.s2.15

c17.s2.15

If *Ti-vasa-sata* means 300, Khāravela and his contemporary Sātakarṇi may have flourished 300 years after Nandarāja, *i.e.*, in or about 24 B.C. This agrees with the Purāṇic evidence according to which Sātakarṇi's father (or uncle) Simuka assailed the last Kāṇva king Suśarman (*c.* 40-30 B.C.).¹