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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|2nd century Satavahana King}}<br />
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| image = [[File:Vashishtiputra Sri Satakarni.jpg|250px]]<br>[[File:Coin legend Vashishtiputra Satakarni.jpg|250px]]<br />
| alt = Satakarni<br />
| caption = Vashishtiputra Sri Satakarni, with coin legend in the [[Brahmi script]].<br />
| succession = [[Satavahana dynasty|Satavahana King]]<br />
| reign = 2nd century CE<br />
| successor = [[Yajna Sri Satakarni]]<br />
| dynasty = [[Satavahana dynasty|Satavahana]]<br />
| religion = [[Buddhism]]<br />
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'''Vashishtiputra Sātakarni''' ([[Brahmi]]: '''𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀺𑀣𑀺𑀧𑀼𑀢 𑀲𑀸𑀢𑀓𑀁𑀁𑀡𑀺''', ''Vāsiṭhiputa Sātakaṃṇi'') was a [[Satavahana]] king, who ruled the [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] region in India, during the 2nd century CE. He was the brother of '''Yajna Sri Satakarni''' his regnal successor. His reign is dated variously: 158-165 CE.<ref name="RKS_2013">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXwcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 |title=Ajanta Paintings: 86 Panels of Jatakas and Other Themes |author=Rajesh Kumar Singh |publisher=Hari Sena |year=2013 |isbn=9788192510750 |pages=15–16 }}</ref><br />
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Vashishtiputra Sātakarni was in great conflict with the Scythian [[Western Kshatrapas]] in the West, but he eventually married the daughter of [[Rudradaman I]] of the Western Kshatrapas dynasty, in order to forge an alliance.<ref name="EP175">{{cite book |last1=Alcock |first1=Susan E. |last2=Alcock |first2=John H. D'Arms Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Susan E. |last3=D'Altroy |first3=Terence N. |last4=Morrison |first4=Kathleen D. |last5=Sinopoli |first5=Carla M. |title=Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History |date=2001 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521770200 |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBuPx1rdGYIC&pg=PA175 |language=en}}</ref> The inscription relating the marriage between Rudradaman I's daughter and Vashishtiputra Satakarni appears in a cave at [[Kanheri]]:<ref name="EP175"/><br />
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{{quote|"Of the queen ... of the illustrious Vashishtiputra Satakarni, descended from the race of Karddamaka kings, (and) daughter of the Mahakshatrapa Ru(dra)....... .........of the confidential minister Sateraka, a water-cistern, the meritorious gift.|Kanheri inscription of Rudradaman I's daughter".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Burgess|first1=James|last2=Bühler|first2=Georg|title=Report on the Elura cave temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina caves in western India; completing the results of the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons' operations of the Archaeological survey, 1877-78, 1878-79, 1879-80. Supplementary to the volume on "The cave temples of India."|date=1883|publisher=London, Trübner & Co.|page=78|url=https://archive.org/stream/reportoneluraca00bhgoog}}</ref>}}<br />
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Later, however, Vashishtiputra Sātakarni was defeated by his father-in-law in battle, with serious effect on Sātavāhana power and prestige:<br />
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{{quote|"Rudradaman (...) who obtained good report because he, in spite of having twice in fair fight completely defeated Satakarni, the lord of [[Dakshinapatha]], on account of the nearness of their connection did not destroy him."|[[Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/HISTORY/PRIMARYDOCS/EPIGRAPHY/JunagadhRockInscription.htm |title=Source |access-date=28 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223182107/http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/HISTORY/PRIMARYDOCS/EPIGRAPHY/JunagadhRockInscription.htm |archive-date=23 February 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>}}<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:Satavahanas (Andhras). Vasisthiputra Satakarni.jpg|Coin of Vasisthiputra Satakarni<br />
File:Rudradaman coin.jpg|Coin of [[Rudradaman I]], whose daughter was married to Vashishtiputra Satakarni to form an alliance.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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== References ==<br />
* K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, A History of South India (Madras, 1976).<br />
*{{Citation | last=Mahadevan | first=Iravatham | author-link=Iravatham Mahadevan | title=Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. | series=[[Harvard Oriental Series]] vol. 62 | year=2003 | place=Cambridge, Mass. | publisher=Harvard University Press | isbn=0-674-01227-5}}<br />
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