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A Note on the Name of the Last Great Sātavāhana King

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1934

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References

page 560 note 1 Raychaudhuri, , Political History of Ancient India,2nd ed., p. 314Google Scholar.

page 560 note 2 Bombay Gazetteer, vol. i, pt. ii, pp. 152 (margin), 153; with reference to inscriptions and coins, however, the name has been written here as Śrī-Yajña- Śātakarṇi.

page 560 note 3 Ibid., p. 11.

page 560 note 4 4th ed., p. 223.

page 560 note 5 p. 42.

page 560 note 6 e.g. Bühler, , Ep. Ind., i, p. 95Google Scholar.

page 560 note 7 Vāyu,99. 355.

page 560 note 8 Note, e.g., that the Vāyu-Purāṇa, at the same breath, givea two different traditions regarding the duration of the Andhra (Sātavāhana) rule. Cf.

ity= ete vai nrpās = trimśad = andhrā bhōksyanti yē mahīm

samāb śatāni catvāri pañca-sad= vai tath= aiva ca99.358.

and again andhrā bhōksyanti vasudhām śatē dvē ca satañ= ca vai99.371.

page 560 note 6 Note, e.g., that the Purāṇas give nineteen years as the reign-period of King Yajña-Śātakarṇi, while the China pillar inscription of this king, dated year 27, clearly shows that he ruled at least for twenty-six years.

page 561 note 1 Lüders's List of BrāhmĪ Inscriptions, No. 987.

page 561 note 2 Ibid., No. 1146.

page 561 note 3 Ibid., No. 1024.

page 561 note 4 Ibid., No. 1340.

page 561 note 5 Rapson, , British Museum Catalogue of Coins of the Andhras, etc., pp. 34 ffGoogle Scholar.