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Nahapana (Ancient Greek: Ναηαπάνα Nahapána; Kharosthi: 𐨣𐨱𐨤𐨣 Na-ha-pa-na, Nahapana; Brahmi: Na-ha-pā-na, Nahapāna;), was an important ruler of the Western Kshatrapas, descendant of the Indo-Scythians, in northwestern India, who ruled during the 1st or 2nd century CE.
Sep 7, 2023 · Nahapana: Another notable Western Kshatrapa ruler, Nahapana is known for his coinage and inscriptions. He played the main role in growing Saka’s dominance at the cost of Satavahans.
Jun 28, 2018 · Nahapana (r. 119–124 CE) (नहपान) was an important ruler of the Western Kshatrapas, descendant of the Indo-Scythians, in northwestern India. According to one of his coins, he was the son of Bhumaka. History. The Kshatrapa dynasty became very powerful with the accession of Nahapana to the throne.
…for two rulers, Bhumaka and Nahapana, whose reigns are established by coinage and by a few surviving inscriptions that appear to fix the year 124 ce as a date in Nahapana’s reign. These documents claim that Nahapana ruled over a large area in western India around the Gulf of Khambhat…
The Western Satraps were contemporaneous with the Kushans who ruled the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, and were possibly vassals of the Kushans. They were also contemporaneous with the Satavahana ( Andhra) who ruled in Central India.
Gautamiputra and Nahapana. Caves excavated by Gautamiputra Satakarni as well as the Western Kshatrapa king Nahapana are located at Nashik. The Nashik prashasti inscription states that Gautamiputra uprooted the Kshaharata (or Khagarata) family, to which Nahapana belonged. The Nashik inscription dated to the 18th year of Gautamiputra's reign ...
Nov 1, 2020 · Saka King Nahapana Ruled around 623-583 BCE? Here are Evidences. The epigraphic and numismatic evidence clearly indicates that there were two branches of Western Kshatraps. Bhumaka and Nahapana belonged to a different branch (Kshaharatas) from the branch of Chashtana (Kardamakas). According to Historians, both the branches were contemporaries.
Mar 15, 2011 · In the first part of this paper it was suggested that a cave was dedicated at Nasik either in or before the eighteenth year of the reign of Gautamïputra Śātakarṇi, and was given to people for whose benefit land previously enjoyed by Uṣavadāta was granted.
Jun 13, 2020 · First, the Satavahanas became etched in memory and in legend as the ‘sons of the soil’ who kept ‘foreign’ invaders at bay. And, second, it heralded the beginning of a new era. Nahapana’s successor, Chashtana, who founded his own dynasty, the Kardamaka Kshatrapas, also set the ball rolling for the ‘Shaka Era’.
After the reign of Satakarni I, the Satavahanas were driven out of the western Deccan by the Shakas of the Kshaharata clan. Coins and inscriptions of the Shaka Chief Nahapana have been found around Nasik, indicating the Shaka dominance in the area towards the close of the first century A.D. or the beginning of the second.
