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that he was able to oust the S'akas from their possession in 

 Anga. His son Candragupta II (Vikramaditya) at the latter 

 end of the 4th century a.d. conquered Rudrasimha II, son of 

 Satyasena, annexed Surastra and Malwa to the Magadha empire 

 and wrested Anga from the hands of the S'akas, which remained 

 under the sway of the Guptas 4 till the 8th century a.d. Tin 

 coin of the " Mahaksatrapa Svami Rudrasena," which was 

 found in the Sultanganj stupa, must have been the coin of 

 his immediate predecessor Rudrasena IV, son of Simhasena. 8 

 Satyasena could not have been the father of Rudrasena, as it 

 has been supposed by General Cunningham * : lie was the father 

 of Rudrasimha, who was perhaps the last of the Western 

 Ksatrapa dynasty. 6 The passage in the Harsacharita 6 which 

 alludes to the slaying of the profligate king of the S'akas 

 by Candragupta in the guise of a woman at the " enemy's 



', evidently means the assassination of Rudrasena bv 



town 



oes 



refer to the conquest of Patallputra by Candragupta- 1 as has 

 been supposed by some. 



At the beginning of the 5th century a.d., Fa Hian who 

 travelled in the Magadha empire during the reign of Candra- 

 gupta II from a.d. 405 to 415, visited Anga. His account of it is 

 very meagre. He says that the country was situated on the 

 southern bank of the Ganges. He saw some memorial towers 

 and some Buddhist priests. He, however, speaks of Anga as 

 1 ' the great kingdom of Chen-po [Campa].' ' 8 It should be here 

 observed that the country was promiscuously called cl Anga 

 and u Campa M from its capital. Barahamihira and Dandin, 

 who flourished in the 6th century a.d., call the country both 

 by the names of Anga and Campa. 9 Hiuen Tsiang who visited 

 it in the 7th century, calls it by the name of r< the country 

 of Chenpo." Bana Bhatta, who also flourished in the 7th cen- 

 tury, does not name Anga, but calls its king as u King of Cam- 

 pa.'" 10 The Yoginl Tantra, which is a work of modern date, 

 mentions the name of Anga. 11 



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1 The Allahabad Pillar inscription of Samudragupta : Corpus Ins. 

 Ind., Ill, 67; J.A.S.B. (1837). vi, 978. 



* Vayu Pur an, pt. ii, ch. 37, v. 379. 



3 See the List of M ahak satrapas of Kathiawad- Malwa in Dr. Bhan- 

 darkar's Peep into the Early History of India. 



* Arch. S. Rep., xv, 29. 



* Duff: Chron., 29. • Ch. vi. 7 Dr Bhandarkars Peep. 



8 Beal: Buddhist Records of the Western World, Intro., p. lxxi. 



9 Brih. Sam., chs. 14, 16; Dasakum., Madhyakh., i, p. 63 (Bom. 

 ed.). 



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