The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s3.15

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The next recorded Kshaharāta chief is Nahapāna, who may or may not have been the immediate successor of Bhūmaka, and may be assigned approximately to the middle of the first century after Christ, or possibly earlier. His name indicates Persian origin. At first he held the rank of Satrap, like Bhūmaka, but subsequently assumed the higher style of Great Satrap (*mahākshatrapa*), and was also known by the Indian title of Rāja. His dominions comprised a large area, extending from Southern Rājputāna as far northward as Ajmēr and Pushkar, to the Nāsik and Poona Districts in the Western Ghāts, and including the peninsula of Surāshtra or Kāthiāwār. His titles of Satrap and Great Satrap indicate subordination to a northern power, which can only have been that of the Kushāns.¹