Chitra Katha

Gautamiputra SatakarniUprooter of the Kshaharatas

Around 124 CE he destroyed the Kshaharata power of Nahapana in the western Deccan, as his mother’s Nashik inscription records, and restruck Nahapana’s own silver coins with his name.

Reigned c. 106–130 CE (one common reckoning)

The full life

1Defeated the Kshaharata satrap Nahapana.Gautamiputra Satakarni · The Kshaharata Shakas

2Jogaltembhi hoard: thousands of Nahapana’s coins re-struck in his name.Gautamiputra Satakarni

3Praised in the Nashik Cave 3 inscription of his mother Gautami Balashri.Gautami Balashri

4Satavahana kings took their mothers’ names: Gautamiputra means son of Gautami.Gautami Balashri · Gautamiputra Satakarni

5Reigned c. 106–130 CE by one common reckoning.Gautamiputra Satakarni · The people

6The Jogaltembhi hoard of Nahapana’s coins came to light in 1906.Gautamiputra Satakarni

Sources for these facts

Nashik Cave 3 inscription of Gautami Balashri
Jogaltembhi hoard (1906)
Epigraphia Indica VIII (Nashik inscriptions)

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