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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.
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…
Sep 21, 2020 · During the reign of the Western Satrap Nahapana, the Satavahanas lost a considerable territory to the Satraps, including eastern Malwa, Southern Gujarat, and Northern Konkan, from Broach to Sopara and the Nasik and Pune.
Nahapana was an important king of the Western Satraps. His kingdom ran from Krishna in the south to Malwa and Saurashtra in the north and from Berar in the east to the Konkan in the west. In a Nasik inscription of his mother Gautami Balashri, he is described as the destroyer of the Shakas, Pahlavas and the Yavanas (Greeks); as the uprooter of ...
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 ...
Jan 9, 2012 · Bhumaka’s successor Nahapana was an important ruler of the Western satrapas. Some sources say that Nahapana was son of Bhumaka, yet the actual relationship between two is not verified.
This is a darshanika kavyam or philosophical poem expressed in simple Malayalam for ordinary people. The Jnanappana is noted for its literary quality, the use of simple phrases, its philosophical strength and reflects Poonthanam's deep bhakti to Guruvayoorappan.
