Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s2.8

c8.s2.8

The territory of the Śātavāhanas extended over the whole of the Dekhan, and Sātakarṇi is called the lord of Dakshiṇāpatha in the Kshatrapa Rudradāman's inscription. Their chief capital appears to have been at Dhanakaṭaka in the east (Dhāraṇikoṭṭa on the Krishṇā), but their chief city in the west was Paithan on the Gōdāvari. The Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela in Kalinga tells us of a Sātakani in the second century B.C., but the Sātakarṇi of our inscriptions may be referred to the first or second century A.D. A peculiarity of these kings is that the name of his mother always appears with that of the king. Thus we have Gautamīputra Sātakarṇi, Vasisṭhīputra Puḷumāyi, and here, Hāritīputra Sātakarṇi. This is a Rajput custom due to polygamy. The actual names of the mothers are not given, but they are called after the gōtra of their family priest.¹ The two branches of the Gōdāvari which form the Delta are still named after the two great queens—the northern is the Gautamī, and the southern the Vasisṭhī.² With regard to the Kaḷalāya of the coins, he was doubtless a viceroy under Sātakarṇi.