Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s3.24

c19.s3.24

Rudradāman I, was succeeded by his eldest son **Dāmaghsada I**. After Dāmaghsada there were, according to Rapson, two claimants for the succession : his son Jīvadāman and his brother Rudra Siṁha I. The struggle was eventually decided in favour of the latter. To **Rudra Siṁha's** reign belongs the Guṇḍa inscription of the year 103 (= A. D. 181) which records the digging of a tank by an Ābhīra general named Rudradhūti, son of the general Bāpaka or Bāhaka. The Ābhīras afterwards possibly usurped the position of *Mahākshatrapa*. According to Dr. Bhandarkar an Ābhīra named Iśvaradatta was the *Mahākshatrapa* of the period 188-90 A. D. But Rapson places Iśvaradatta after A.D. 236.