Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s1.76

c18.s1.76

(*a*) **The Kusulua or Kusuluka Group.**—It consisted of Liaka and his son Patika, possibly of the Chhabarata or Kshaharāta family, who apparently governed the district of Chuksha.² According to Fleet there were two Patikas.³ But in the opinion of Marshall there was only one viceroy of the name of Patika.⁴ The Satrapal line of Kusuluka was intimately connected with the Satraps of Mathurā.⁵ The coins of Liaka Kusuluka show the transition of the district to which they belonged, *i.e.*, a part of Eastern Gandhāra, from the rule of the Greek house of Eukratides to the Śakas.⁶ We learn from the Taxila, or the so-called Sirsukh, plate, dated in the year 78, that Liaka was a Satrap of the great king Moga and that Patika, his son, was a great gift-lord (*mahādānapati*).⁷