The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c7.s3.14

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Nor can we ignore the expression Khatiyadapamāna madanasa applied to Gautamiputra and the extent to which it reinforces the ekabamhaṇasa of the same epigraph. Dr. Bhandarkar went far out of the way to identify this Khatiya not with the obvious Kshatriya caste but with an obscure tribe of the name, the Xathroi of Arrian, placed by him on the confluence of the Chenāb and the Indus. According to Dr. Bhandarkar these were the Kshatriyas of Kauṭilya, Manu, and Ptolemy. The ‘Bhraṣṭarājās’ of the Girnār inscription whom Rudradāman restored to their thrones may well have been the Khatiyas of the Nāsik record who are said to have suffered at the hands of Gautamiputra Sātakarṇi.¹ Gotamī Balaśrī was, however, certain in her mind that the Khatiyas were definitely distinct from the bamhaṇa that was her son.