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| image = [[File:Western_Satrap_Visvasena.jpg|300px]]<br>[[File:Visvasena coin legend in Brahmi.jpg|300px]]<br />
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| caption = {{center|Visvasena coin, and its legend in Brahmi, with a strike date (216) found on the obverse of some coins. The legend reads:<br>''Rājño Mahākshatrapasa Bhartṛidāmnaḥ putrasa Rājñaḥ Kshatrapasa Viçvasenasa''<br>"Of the Rajah and Satrap Visnasena, brother of the Rajah and Great Satrap [[Bhartrdaman]]".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhagvanlal |first1=Pandit |title=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1834 |publisher=Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society |page=[https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas2218roya/page/n696 659] |url=https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas2218roya}}</ref> }}<br />
| succession = [[Western Satraps]]<br />
| reign = 293-304 CE<br />
| predecessor = [[Bhartrdaman]]<br />
| successor = [[Rudrasimha II]]<br />
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| father = [[Rudrasena II]]<br />
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|caption = Western Satrap territory extended from the west coast of [[India]] to [[Vidisha]]/ [[Sanchi]] and [[Eran]], from the time of [[Rudrasena II]] (256–278) well into the 4th century.<ref name="Shaw 58">Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, c. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD, Julia Shaw, Routledge, 2016 [https://books.google.com/books?id=IUbUDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR58 p58-59]</ref> Marital alliances with the [[Andhra Ikshvaku|Ikshvaku]] of southern India are mentioned in inscriptions at [[Nagarjunakonda]] (3rd century CE).<ref>"Another queen of Virapurusha was Rudradhara-bhattarika. According to D.C. Sircar she might have been related to Rudrasena II (c. a.d. 254-74) the Saka ruler of Western India" in {{cite book |last1=Rao |first1=P. Raghunadha |title=Ancient and medieval history of Andhra Pradesh |date=1993 |publisher=Sterling Publishers |isbn=9788120714953 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ancientmedievalh0000ragh/page/23 23] |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientmedievalh0000ragh |url-access=registration |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=(India) |first1=Madhya Pradesh |title=Madhya Pradesh District Gazetteers: Ujjain |date=1982 |publisher=Government Central Press |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lo5hAAAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref><br />
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'''Viśvasena''' (Middle [[Brahmi]]: [[File:Visvasena in Brahmi.jpg|60px]] ''{{IAST|Vi-śva-se-na}}'', r.293–304 CE) was a ruler of the [[Western Satraps]], and the 22nd ruler of the Kshatrapa dynasty. He was the last Kshatrapa ruler of the [[Chastana]] family, brother and successor to [[Bhartrdaman]] and son of [[Rudrasena II (Western Satrap)|Rudrasena II]].<ref name="CSH">{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Shorter History of India |publisher=CUP Archive |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA84 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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A coin of Visvasena was found in excavations at the [[Ajanta Caves]], in the burnt-brick monastery facing the caves on the right bank of the river [[Waghora]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mitra |first1=Debala |title=Ajanta |date=2004 |publisher=Archaeological Survey of India |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ajanta00mitr/page/94 94]-95 |url=https://archive.org/details/ajanta00mitr}}</ref><br />
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His successor was [[Rudrasimha II]].<ref name="CSH"/><br />
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File:Ajanta Visvasena.jpg|A coin of Visvasena, found in excavations at [[Ajanta Caves]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* {{cite book |author=K. Krishna Murthy |title=Nāgārjunakoṇḍā: A Cultural Study |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gBSWyLTSzkC&pg=PA1 |year=1977 |publisher=Concept |oclc=4541213 }}<br />
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