[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c26.20 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.20 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.20 - **Language:** English ### [c26.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c26.20) Archaeologists have got into a bad habit of mixing up as ‘Western Satraps’ two distinct dynasties—namely, the Kshaharātas of Mahārāshṭra and the line of Chashṭana originally settled at Ujjain in Mālwā. No doubt both dynasties were satraps in the west, but they were entirely distinct, and it is better not to apply a common designation to both. Probably the capital of Nahapāna Kshaharāta was at or near Nāsik in the Western Ghāts; the original capital of Chashṭana certainly was Ujjain. Chashṭana’s grandson Rudradāman annexed from Pulumāyi II Āndhra most of the territories which Pulumāyi’s father had wrested from the Kshaharātas some years earlier. It is not necessary to believe that Gautamīputra Āndhra fought with Nahapāna personally. Study of the great Jogaltembhi hoard of more than 13,000 coins of Nahapāna proves that the coinage extended over many years, although always bearing the name of Nahapāna, who, I believe, was dead before Gautamīputra extirpated his family or clan. The arrow and thunderbolt of Nahapāna’s coins connect him with the Parthians and the Northern Satraps Hagāna and Hagāmāsha.¹ The coinage of Chashṭana and his successors is quite different. - [Previous: c26.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c26.19) - [Next: c26.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c26.21) - [Up: c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c26.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c26.20) · Pramāṇa