A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s3.22
A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s3.22
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³ The inscription has been published by Kielhorn, Ep. Ind. 8, 36 ff. and is regarded by him as of 151 or 152 A.D. Bühler (loc. cit. p. 49) places it between 160 and 170 A.D. The inscription is found also on a rock near Girnār. Rudradāman belonged to the so-called “western Kṣatrapas”. Kṣatrapa is a Sanskrit adaptation of Persian Khshathrapa (Greek “Satrap”, as the land-lords and chieftains of the Indo-Scythian kings were designated, who ruled over the whole of north-west and west India in the first two centuries A.C.