Political History Of Ancient India

SR No.: 032292
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 714
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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LATER SATRAPS OF CHASHTANA'S LINE 509
exacting taxes ( Kara ), forced labour ( Vishți ) benevolences (Pranaya), and the like. The king was helped in the work of government by an able staff of officials, who were "fully endowed with the qualifications of ministers” ( amūtya-guna samudyuktaih ) and were divided into two classes, viz., Matisachiva (Counsellors ) and Karma-sachiva (Executive Officers).
Rudradāman had at least two sons and one daughter. The princess was given in marriage to Vāsishthaputra Sri Satakarņi of the Sātaväbana family of the Deccan. A Nāgārjunikonda inscription ? refers to a princess from Ujjain named Rudrad hara Bhattārikā who was the queen (Mahādevī) of an Iksh vāku ruler of the Gunţiir district and some adjoining regions in the lower Krishṇā valley. It has been surmised by Vogel that she probably belonged to the house of Chashtana. Her father is styled a Mahārāja, a title which seems to have been formally assumed by one of the latest successors of Rudradāman I, riz., Svāmi-Rudrasena III, who ruled from c. A.D. 348 to. 378, and was, apparently, a contemporary of SamudraGupta. It is, however, difficult to say if the Ikshvāku queen was a daughter of Rudrasena III or of some earlier prince.
Rudradāman I, was succeeded by his eldest son Dāmaghsada I. After Dānraghsada there were, according to Rapson, two claimants for the succession : his son Jivadāman and his brother Rudra Siniha I. The struggle was eventually decided in favour of the latter. To Rudra Simha's reign belongs the Guņda inscription of the year 103 ( = A. D. 181) which records the digging of a tank by an Abhira general named Rudrabhūti, son of the general - Bāpaka or Bāhaka. The Ābhiras afterwards
1 Bomb, Gaz, I, 1, 39. 2 Ep. Ind., XX, 1 ff.