Tag: the shatavahanas/gautami puthra shatakarni (230 b.c. to 220 a.d.)

Educational institutions during the Satavahana period were called ghatikas. Many scholars of Vedas and other scriptures were encouraged to teach the people. Satavahana dynasty belonged to the Andhra jati and was the first Deccanese dynasty to build an empire in daksinapatha—i.e., the southern region. Their  rule began in the first century BCE and lasted until the second century CE.

According to Burgess, there might have been an interval of as much as a century between the reigns of these two kings. 

The Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman, also known as the Girnar Rock inscription of Rudradaman, is a Sanskrit prose inscribed on a rock by the Indian Satraps ruler Rudradaman I. It is located near Girnar hill near Junagadh, Gujarat, India.

Gautami Balasri was the mother of Gautamiputra Satkarni. He was a ruler of the Satavahana Empire who ruled in the second cent. BCE. Satavahana dynasty belonged to the Andhra jati and was the first Deccanese dynasty to build an empire in daksinapatha—i.e., the southern region. Their rule began in the first century BCE and lasted until the second century CE.

The Satavahana dynasty emerged in the Deccan region, which is geographically situated to the south of the Vindhya mountain range.

The Vakatakas rose to power in the Deccan following the decline of the Satavahana dynasty in the 3rd century AD. They became the dominant political force in the region during the post-Satavahana period.

Simuka is historically recognized as the founder of the Satavahana dynasty, having overthrown the Kanva dynasty to establish his rule.