Sridharavarman

Sridharavarman
Saka General, Great Satrap and King
Sridharavarman ruled in an area around Vidisha/Sanchi and Eran, where his inscriptions were found. Probable image of Satyanaga, Sridharavarman's general.[1]
ReignCirca 339-368 CE

Sridharavarman (Gupta script: , Shri-dha-ra-va-rmma-na, ruled c. 339 – c. 368 CE)[2][3] was a Saka (Indo-Scythian) ruler of Central India, around the areas of Vidisa, Sanchi and Eran in the 4th century CE, just before the Gupta Empire expansion in these areas.[3][2] He calls himself a general and "righteous conqueror" (dharmaviyagi mahadandanayaka) in an inscription, and Rajan ('King') and Mahaksatrapa ('Great Satrap') in a probably later inscription at Eran, suggesting that he may have been a high-ranked officer who later rose to the rank of a King.[3]

  1. ^ "There is a compartment showing a horsemen holding the reins of his horse in the left hand and a sword or a javelin in the right" Abbasi, A. A. (2001). Dimensions of Human Cultures in Central India: Professor S.K. Tiwari Felicitation Volume. Sarup & Sons. p. 159. ISBN 978-81-7625-186-0.
  2. ^ a b 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 p58-59
  3. ^ a b c Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu (1955). Corpus inscriptionum indicarum vol.4 pt.2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri Chedi Era. Archaeological Society of India. pp. 605–611.