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wa, and others of the list are more Indian in sound. It is re- 

 markable that in the long string- of epithets applied even to Rudra- 

 dama the chosen Satrap, there is none which bears the slightest 

 allusion to Hindu mythology ; while on the other hand the coins of the 

 whole dynasty bear an emblem which we have hitherto considered either 

 of Mithraic or of Buddhist import. The name Jinaddmd (wearing 

 Buddha as a necklace) is decidedly Buddhistic ; and the epithet applied 

 in the inscription to Rudradiimd, — ' who from right persuasion never 

 put any living creature to death' — proves that Rudra's opinions were 

 at any rate influenced by the proximity of the important Buddhist 

 establishment at Girndr. 



The style of prose eulogy employed by the composer of the inscrip- 

 tion puts us much in mind of our old friend, the Allahabud column. It 

 has its corresponding list of countries conquered and equitably ruled : 

 but few of the names are, as might be expected, the same in the two. 

 Avanti or Ujjayani, and Vrija (if the latter name be correctly read) 

 are of the duost importance as implying that the elected kings of the 

 Sdh family, or the Satraps of Surdshtra as we may now more properly 

 call them, had acquired dominion over all the central portion of India, 

 driving back the Magadha sovereigns, (who had previously spread their 

 hands to the farthest west,) into their own Gangetic limits. The other 

 places Anartta, Kukura, &c. are probably provinces to the northwest, out 

 of India proper. One other name however deserves our particular atten- 

 tion ; the king of the Dakhan (Dakshinapatha), who was twice threatened 

 with an invasion, and brought to sue for peace. His name is Sata 

 Karni, the same which occurs several times in the lists of the Andhra 

 kings extracted by Wilford from the Bhdgavat r and other Purdnas. 

 It is a patronymic, from ipf^rfnr ' the hundred-eared' which was doubt- 

 less the name of the founder of the family : and Satakarni was proba- 

 bly the surname of all the line, though not repeated every where in the 

 versified enumeration of the Purdnas. 



The locality of the Andhra dominion has hitherto been as uncertain 

 as the period of its sway. Wilford says in one place that the Andhra 

 princes '. made a most conspicuous figure on the banks of the Ganges 

 for above 800 years* ;' — again that Andhra and Koshala (near Kalin- 

 ga) are used synonymously by some Hindu authors : — again that Sri' 

 Carna deva took the title of king of Tri-kalinga, or of the three 

 shores, to the east and west and south of Indiaf . From our inscription 

 we perceive that the general term of Dakshinapatha agrees well with 

 the latter definition, and we may rest content with denoting the Sdta- 

 karnis as kings of the Peninsula. 



* As. Res. IX. 101. f Ditto, 104. 



