Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s2.t1.4

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Yajñaśrī was the last great king of his dynasty. After his death the Sātavāhanas probably lost North-Western Mahārāshṭra to the Ābhīra king Iśvarasena.² The later Sātavāhana princes—Vijaya, Chaṇḍa Śrī (variant Chandra Śrī) and Pulomāvi of the Purāṇas—seem to have ruled in Berar, the Eastern Deccan and the Kanarese country.¹ The existence of Vijaya seems now to be confirmed by numismatic evidence.² Chaṇḍa Śrī may have been identical with Vāsiṣṭhī-putra "Sāmi-siri Chaṁḍa Sāta" of the Kodavali rock-cut well Inscription discovered near Piṭhāpuram in the Godāvarī region, while Pulomāvi is, in the opinion of Dr. D. C. Sircar, to be identified with the king of the same name mentioned in the Myakadoni inscription of the Bellary District. Coins disclose the existence of a few other Kings of the line who must be assigned to the latest Sātavāhana period. Sātavāhana rule in the Kṛishṇā, Guṇṭūr and Bellary districts was eventually supplanted by the Ikshvākus¹ and the Pallavas.²