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Successor Regional Powers: Satavahanas and Kushans Adapting Mauryan Models (c.2nd century BCE–4th century CE)

Successor Regional Powers: Satavahanas and Kushans Adapting Mauryan Models (c.2nd century BCE–4th century CE)

  1. Mauryan collapse opens space for regional states

    Labels: Mauryan Empire, Regional states

  2. Naneghat inscription records Satavahana royal ritual

    Labels: Naneghat Inscription, Queen Naganika

  3. Indo-Greek “Yavana era” attested near Mathura

    Labels: Yavanarajya Inscription, Mathura

  4. Satavahana patronage helps expand Sanchi gateways

    Labels: Sanchi Gateway, Satavahanas

  5. Early Satavahana rule coalesces under Simuka

    Labels: Simuka, Satavahana Dynasty

  6. Kujula Kadphises forms an early Kushan empire

    Labels: Kujula Kadphises, Kushan Empire

  7. Mid-1st-century Periplus describes Indian Ocean trade

    Labels: Periplus, Indian Ocean

  8. Vima Takto expands Kushan rule in the northwest

    Labels: Vima Takto, Kushan Rule

  9. Gautamiputra Satakarni revives Satavahana power

    Labels: Gautamiputra Satakarni, Satavahana Administration

  10. Satavahanas defeat Nahapana and overstrike coins

    Labels: Nahapana, Coin Overstrikes

  11. Rabatak inscription records Kanishka’s Kushan lineage

    Labels: Rabatak Inscription, Kanishka

  12. Satavahana–Western Kshatrapa marriage alliance at Kanheri

    Labels: Kanheri Inscription, Rudradaman I

  13. Yajna Sri Satakarni recaptures territory, then Satavahanas wane

    Labels: Yajna Sri, Satavahana Decline

  14. Kanishka-era Buddhism spreads through imperial patronage

    Labels: Kanishka Era, Buddhism Patronage

  15. Sasanian pressure breaks Kushan control in the northwest

    Labels: Sasanian Empire, Kushan Decline