The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c7.s6.74

v1.c7.s6.74

But in the very success of Puḷumāvi, the ‘extirpator’ of the Kaṇva dynasty, lay also his weakness. He now presided over a far-flung empire with too elongated a frontier to defend against an external enemy. With Suśarman’s death, a night, neither calm nor cloudless, descended upon Magadha. For the first time, the Sātavāhanas became the only Indian power with whom the Śaka overlords of the north had to reckon. The latter were probably forced to abandon Malwa, which lay on the Andhra-Magadhan route.¹ The integrity of the Western dominions and the security of the Satrapy of Mathurā were alike threatened.