The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c7.s6.42

v1.c7.s6.42

Sātakarṇi (II) now felt entitled to round off his signal successes by the performance of a great many Vedic sacrifices. The Nānāghāṭ epigraph of Queen Nāganikā recounts among others the celebration of Aśvamedha, Rājasūya, Agnyādheya, &c. The words Yanehi Yitham, ‘the sacrifices were offered’, used in the epigraph suggests that at the time of the inscribing of the record King Sātakarṇi was no longer alive and that his wife was commemorating the great Brāhmanical revival during the reign of her lord as symbolized by those sacrifices in which she herself had been associated with him.