The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.44

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¹ The first known satrap of Taxila was Liaka, whose son was Patika. In the year 78 Liaka was directly subordinate to king Moga, who is generally supposed to be Maues or Mauas of the coins. Śodāsa, satrap of Mathurā in the year 72, was the son of satrap Rājuvula, whose later coins imitate those of Strato II. The era or eras to which those dates refer have not been determined. S. Konow holds that Śodāsa's inscription is dated in the Vikrama era (*Ep. Ind.*, xiv, 139). Rājuvula succeeded the satraps Hagāna and Hagāmāsha (? brothers), who displaced native Rājas named Gomitra, Rāmadatta, &c., of whom coins are extant. The coinage of the two Stratos, which covers a period of about seventy years, has been elucidated by Prof. Rapson (*Corolla Numismatica*, p. 245; Oxford, 1906). Vogel suggests that Rājuvula and his son may have been satraps subordinate to Huvishka, whose accession I place in a. d. 123 (*A. S. Prog. Rep.*, 1909–10, *N. Circle*, p. 9). If that be correct, the date 72 would be in the Saka era = a. d. 150. But there are difficulties.