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{{See also|Ramagupta|Rudrasimha III}}[[File:Bhadramukhas_ruler_Rudrasimha_III_Circa_385-415_CE.jpg|thumb|Coin of the last Western Satrap ruler [[Rudrasimha III]] (388–395).]] | {{See also|Ramagupta|Rudrasimha III}}[[File:Bhadramukhas_ruler_Rudrasimha_III_Circa_385-415_CE.jpg|thumb|Coin of the last Western Satrap ruler [[Rudrasimha III]] (388–395).]] | ||
[[Rudrasimha III]] seems to have been the last of the Western Satrap rulers.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA93 |title=The Cambridge Shorter History of India |publisher=CUP Archive |page=93 |language=en}}</ref> [[Samudragupta]] who was the second great unifier of [[Indian subcontinent|India]], passed away in 375 CE. According to the [[Sanskrit]] play called "Devichandraguptam," [[Samudragupta]] was succeeded by [[Ramagupta]], who was a weak ruler. The [[Sakas]] started a revolt and emboldened by [[Sasanian Empire|Persian]] support, revolted against the [[Gupta Empire|Guptas]]. Unskilled in war, [[Ramagupta]] was outflanked in a battle and was besieged by the [[Saka]] forces. Afterwards, [[Ramagupta]] tried to negotiate with the [[Western Satraps|Kshatrapa]] chief but the chief demanded that the wife or chief queen of [[Ramagupta]], [[Dhruvadevi]] to be handed over. This however infuriated his brother, [[Chandragupta II]]. According to the [[Sanskrit]] writers such as [[Bāṇabhaṭṭa]] and [[Vishakhadatta]], [[Chandragupta II]] executed his plan by disguising as a woman, entered the [[Saka]] chief's tent and slayed him. Subsequently, [[Ramagupta]] was overthrown or killed due to an interplay of events and [[Chandragupta II]] became the next king.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} | [[Rudrasimha III]] seems to have been the last of the Western Satrap rulers.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA93 |title=The Cambridge Shorter History of India |publisher=CUP Archive |page=93 |language=en}}</ref> [[Samudragupta]] who was the second great unifier of [[Indian subcontinent|India]], passed away in 375 CE. According to the [[Sanskrit]] play called "Devichandraguptam," [[Samudragupta]] was succeeded by [[Ramagupta]], who was a weak ruler. The [[Sakas]] started a revolt and emboldened by [[Sasanian Empire|Persian]] support, revolted against the [[Gupta Empire|Guptas]]. Unskilled in war, [[Ramagupta]] was outflanked in a battle and was besieged by the [[Saka]] forces. Afterwards, [[Ramagupta]] tried to negotiate with the [[Western Satraps|Kshatrapa]] chief but the chief demanded that the wife or chief queen of [[Ramagupta]], [[Dhruvadevi]] to be handed over. This however infuriated his brother, [[Chandragupta II]]. According to the [[Sanskrit]] writers such as [[Bāṇabhaṭṭa]] and [[Vishakhadatta]], [[Chandragupta II]] executed his plan by disguising as a woman, entered the [[Saka]] chief's tent and slayed him. Subsequently, [[Ramagupta]] was overthrown or killed due to an interplay of events and [[Chandragupta II]] became the next king.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} | ||
== Chandragupta II's Saka conquests == | |||
{{See also|Chandragupta II}}[[File:Sanchi,_Inscription_of_Candragupta_II..JPG|thumb|The victorious [[Sanchi inscription of Chandragupta II]] (412-413 CE).]] | |||
Due to the liberations of [[Kingdom of Kapisa|Kapisa]] and [[Gandhara]], the [[Sasanians|Persians]] allied with the [[Western Satraps|Saka Kshatrapa]], who were trying to rid themselves of Indian influence.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} | |||
The [[Western Satraps]] were eventually conquered by King [[Chandragupta II]]. Inscriptions of a victorious [[Chandragupta II]] in the year 412-413 CE can be found on the railing near the Eastern Gateway of the Great Stupa in [[Sanchi]].<ref>Marshall, The Monuments of India [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.532798 p.388]</ref> | |||
{{blockquote|The glorious Candragupta (II), (...) who proclaims in the world the good behaviour of the excellent people, namely, the dependents (of the king), and who has acquired banners of victory and fame in many battles|[[Sanchi inscription of Chandragupta II]], 412-413 CE.<ref>Marshall, The Monuments of India [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.532798 p.388 inscription 833]</ref>}} | |||
<gallery mode="packed" heights="110" style="border:1px #aaa solid" caption="Gupta Empire coins on the model of the Western Satraps"> | |||
File:Silver_Coin_of_Chandragupta_II.jpg|Coin of Gupta ruler [[Chandragupta II]] (r.380–415) in the style of the Western Satraps.<ref name="CIC" /> | |||
File:Silver_Coin_of_Kumaragupta_I.jpg|Coin of Gupta ruler [[Kumaragupta I]] (r.414–455) (Western territories).<ref name="CIC" /> | |||
File:Gupta_Kings._Skandagupta._AD_455-467.jpg|Coin of Gupta ruler [[Skandagupta]] (r.455-467), in the style of the Western Satraps.<ref name="CIC" /> | |||
</gallery>Following these conquests, the silver coins of the Gupta kings [[Chandragupta II]] and his son [[Kumaragupta I]] adopted the Western Satrap design (itself derived from the [[Indo-Greeks]]) with bust of the ruler and pseudo-Greek inscription on the obverse, and a royal eagle ([[Garuda]], the dynastic symbol of the Guptas) replacing the [[chaitya]] hill with star and crescent on the reverse.<ref name="CIC">"Evidence of the conquest of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurastra]] during the reign of [[Chandragupta II]] is to be seen in his rare silver coins which are more directly imitated from those of the Western Satraps... they retain some traces of the old inscriptions in Greek characters, while on the reverse, they substitute the Gupta type ... for the [[chaitya]] with crescent and star." in Rapson "A catalogue of Indian coins in the British Museum. The Andhras etc.", p.cli</ref> A tale of a climatic Battle of [[Aror|Alor]] ([[Sindh province]] of modern day [[Pakistan]]) between [[Chandragupta II|Chandragupta Vikramaditya]] and the [[Sakas]] still survived till the time of [[Alberuni]] in the 11th century CE. [[Chandragupta II|Chandragupta II's]] campaign against the [[Sakas]] was successful and the [[Western Satraps|Saka Kshatrapas]] were wiped out.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} | |||
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