India. They are called "Western Satraps" in modern historiography in order to differentiate them from the "Northern Satraps", who ruled in Punjab and...
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adopted the title "satrap" for the semi-autonomous princes that governed one of its Armenian provinces, the Satrapiae. The Western Satraps or Kshatrapas (35–405...
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Saka continued to govern as satrapies, forming the Northern Satraps and Western Satraps. The power of the Saka rulers started to decline in the 2nd century...
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of foreign invaders. In particular their struggles with the Saka (Western Satraps) went on for a long time. The dynasty reached its zenith under the...
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The Northern Satraps (Brahmi: , Kṣatrapa, "Satraps" or , Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps"), or sometimes Satraps of Mathura, or Northern Sakas, are a dynasty...
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Gupta–Saka Wars (redirect from Western Satraps–Gupta Empire Wars)
Wars refers to the military conflict between the Gupta Empire and the Western Satraps during the 4th century CE. Chandragupta II, also known as Chandragupta...
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Indo-Scythians (section Western Satraps)
Saka continued to govern as satrapies, forming the Northern Satraps and Western Satraps. The power of the Saka rulers began to decline during the 2nd...
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Indo-Scythian art (section Art of Western India under the Western Satraps (circa 2nd-4th centuries CE))
the productions of the early Indo-Scythians, the Northern Satraps and the Western Satraps. It follows the development of Indo-Greek art in northwestern...
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Sanchi (section Western Satraps)
again replaced by the Western Satraps in the mid-3rd century CE, during the rule of Rudrasena II (255-278 CE). The Western Satraps remained well into the...
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the Western Satraps. The greatest and the mightiest ruler of the Satavahana dynasty was Gautamiputra Satakarni who defeated the Western Satraps and conquered...
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Malavas (section Conflict against the Western Satraps)
Their power gradually declined as a result of defeats against the Western Satraps (2nd century CE), the Gupta emperor Samudragupta (4th century), and...
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consisted of Kshatrapas (Brahmi:, Kṣatrapa, "Satraps") and Mahakshatrapa (Brahmi: , Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps"). Other areas of probable rule include Khwarezm...
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Yaudheya (section Western Satraps (2nd century CE))
such as the Kushan Empire and the Indo-Scythians. Rudradaman I of the Western Satraps notes in his Junagadh rock inscription that the Yaudheyas were 'heroes...
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ISBN 978-0-7496-6979-9. Smith, Vincent A. "Chapter 11 – The Gupta Empire and the Western Satraps: Chandragupta I to Kumaragupta I". The Public's Library and Digital...
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Middle kingdoms of India (section The Western Satraps)
designation of "Western Satraps", Ptolemy's Geography still called them "Indo-Scythians". Altogether, there were 27 independent Western Satrap rulers during...
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Mathura. In Western India, as visible in Devnimori, the Western Satraps (1st–4th century CE) developed a refined art, representing a Western Indian artistic...
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inscription of Rudradaman, is a Sanskrit prose inscribed on a rock by the Western Satraps ruler Rudradaman I. It is located near Girnar hill near Junagadh, Gujarat...
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Maharashtra (redirect from Maharashtra - State in Western India)
Mauryas, the Satavahanas, the Western Satraps, the Abhiras, the Vakatakas, the Chalukyas, the Rashtrakutas, the Western Chalukyas, the Seuna Yadavas,...
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was particularly focused around the regions of Gujarat, ruled by the Western Satraps, and the tip of the Indian peninsular in Southern India. Large hoards...
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Indo-Greek Kingdom (section Western accounts)
of the Indo-Parthians, the Kushans, and the Indo-Scythians, whose Western Satraps state lingered on encompassing local Greeks, up to 415 CE. Greeks first...
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A second casket included eight coins of Western Satraps rulers, one of them being a coin of Western Satrap ruler Visvasena (294-305). The coins are worn...
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Shakas (the Western Satraps) under Vashishtiputra Satakarni. He defeated the Western Satraps and reconquered their southern regions in western and central...
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inscription made in the Nasik Caves by Ushavadata, a son-in-law of the Western Satraps ruler Nahapana, in the years circa 120 CE. It is the earliest known...
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Chandragupta II (section Western Kshatrapas)
(right) coins Coin with the king's name in Brahmi script Silver coin in Western Satraps style (15mm, 2.1 grams.) Various gold coins of Chandragupta II In addition...
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Rajasthan. The Western Indian region was ruled by the Rashtrakuta Empire, the Maurya Empire, the Gupta Empire, Rajputs, Satavahanas, Western Satraps, Indo Greeks...
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Pauni (section Great Satrap Rupiamma (2nd century CE))
related to the Saka Western Satraps. This memorial pillar is thought to mark the southern extent of the conquests of the Western Satraps, much beyond the...
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c. 380 BC, and most importantly, the revolts by the western satraps (known as the Great Satraps' Revolt) in the 360s and 350s BC, led by distinguished...
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DYNASTY INDO- SCYTHIANS INDO- GREEKS CHUTUS NORTHERN SATRAPS MITRAS MALAVAS YAUDHEYAS WESTERN SATRAPS YUEZHIS INDO- PARTHIANS PANDYAS CHOLAS The Mahameghavahana...
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Satkarni, Vashishthiputra Pulumavi of the Satavahanas, two of the Western Satraps, Ushavadata and his wife Dakshamitra, and the Yavana (Indo-Greek) Dhammadeva...
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Vakataka royal family and, with their support, annexed Gujarat from the Saka Satraps in 4th century CE. The power vacuum left by the Vakatakas were filled by...
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