Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s2.21

c19.s2.21

In the Purāṇic lists compiled by Pargiter the immediate successors of Gautamīputra are Pulomā, his son, and Sātakarṇi. Pulomā is doubtless identical with Siro P(t)olemaios of Baithana mentioned by Ptolemi and Vāsishṭhīputra Svāmi Śrī Pulumāvi of inscriptions and coins. Sātakarṇi is perhaps to be identified with **Vāsishṭhīputra Śrī Sātakarṇi** of a Kanheri Cave Inscription, or with Vāsishṭhīputra Chatarapana Sātakarṇi of a Nānāghaṭ record. His exact position in the genealogical list cannot be determined with precision. The Kanheri epigraph represents Vāsishṭhīputra Śrī Sātakarṇi as the husband of a daughter of the *Mahākshatrapa* Ru(dra). Rapson identifies this Rudra with Rudradāman I. There can hardly be any doubt that the Sātavāhana king mentioned in the Kanheri record, or one of his close relations who bore a similar name, was identical with Sātakarṇi, lord of the Deccan, whom Rudradāman "twice in fair fight completely defeated, but did not destroy on account of the nearness of their connection." Dr. Bhandarkar's identification of Vāsishṭhīputra Śrī Sātakarṇi of Kanheri with Vāsishṭhīputra Śiva Śrī Sātakarṇi of coins and Śiva Śrī of the *Matsya Purāṇa* cannot be regarded as more than a conjecture. The ruler mentioned in the Kanheri Inscription may have been a brother of Pulumāyi.