The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c7.s5.5

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Hence the son-in-law of Rudradāman, Vāsiṣṭhīputra Sātakarṇi, must be sought for among the successors of Puḷumāvi or their closest of kin. Pandit Bhagavanlal Indraji discovered an inscription at Nānāghāṭ,³ wherein the king is referred to as Chatarapanasa Vāsiṣṭhīputra Sātakarṇi. Pandit Bhagavanlal and Dr. Bühler believed that this Sātakarṇi was identical with that of the Kānheri record who was Rudradāman’s son-in-law. According to the Pandit, a coin of Yajña Śrī found at Sopārā bears the legend *Chatarapanasa Gotamīputakumāru Siri Sātakarṇi*. He concluded that Chatarapana was the father of Yajña Śrī. Prof. Rapson rejected both this reading of the legend and the inference drawn from it.¹ As regards the Nānāghāṭ inscription, he remarked that Pandit Bhagavanlal ‘was no doubt correct in his estimate of the period to which the inscriptional characters belong; but it is impossible to determine whether this king Vāsiṣṭhīputra Chatarapana Sātakarṇi is a member of a dynasty otherwise unknown...’. Prof. Nilakanta Śastri could only suggest that the Sātakarṇi of the Girnār record ‘may have been Śiva Śrī Sātakarṇi, the successor of Puḷumāvi.’² ... The husband of the Karddamaka queen, the daughter of Mahākshatrapa Rudra, may have been the brother or son of Śiva Śrī Sātakarṇi and his successor, viz. Vāsiṣṭhīputra Śrī Chandra Sāti.’