The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s3.19

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About A. D. 128 Rāja Gautamīputra Srī Sātakarṇi was succeeded by his son, Rāja Vāsishṭhīputra Srī Pulumāyi, who had been his colleague,¹ and reigned for some thirty years. He was married to a daughter of Rudradāman I, the Saka Great Satrap of Ujjain, but the matrimonial connexion did not prevent the Great Satrap from twice defeating his son-in-law and taking from him most of the territory which Gautamīputra Sātakarṇi had won from the Kshaharātas. The relationship, however, so far influenced the victor that he did not proceed to extremities, as he would have done to a stranger. The aggrandizement of Rudradāman I must have been largely completed before A. D. 130, by which date he was in possession of Cutch, and certainly before A. D. 150, because we know that shortly after that date he placed on record a list of the numerous regions in Western India which owned his sway.