The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c7.s6.76

v1.c7.s6.76

The Śaka-Pahlava overlords of the north, therefore, prepared themselves to beat down the Sātavāhana menace. Puḷumāvi himself survived his great exploit for only five years. His death in 19 B.C. made it easy for the Western Kshatrapas to regain the lands wrested from them earlier by the Sātavāhana king.² Nahapāna, the Western Kshatrapa, went farther still to conquer and annex even the Sātavāhana provinces of Northern Mahārāṣṭra and Aparānta. This Nahapāna, who was apparently connected with the Mathurā Kshatrapas, must have received considerable assistance from his contemporary at Mathurā, Mahākshatrapa Rājuvula, ‘King of Kings, the Saviour’.³ Indeed Rājuvula’s title ‘the Saviour’ here assumes a special significance.