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ence of some important buildings at this very spot during their reigns. I have already suggested that Gotamiputra Sátakarni was probably the same person as the great Sáliváhan, or Sádaváhan, who established the Sake era; and I am inclined to assign the foundation of the Amaravati stupa to him, in about A.D. 90, and its completion to Yádrya Sri Sátakarni, one of his successors, who ascended the throne in A.D. 142. This date corresponds very well with the only facts that we possess regarding the age of the stupa, namely, that it cannot be earlier than the Christian era or later than A.D. 313, when its relics were carried away to Ceylon.