Bhadayasa, also Bhadrayasha (

Kharosthi The Kharoṣṭhī script, also spelled Kharoshthi (Kharosthi: ), was an ancient Indo-Iranian script used by various Aryan peoples in north-western regions of the Indian subcontinent, more precisely around present-day northern Pakistan and ...

: , ), was a minor Indo-Scythian ruler in the areas of Eastern Punjab and Mathura in India, during the 1st century CE. He is considered one of the Northern Satraps. He is mainly known through his coins, which are direct imitations of those of the Indo-Greek king

Zoilos II Zoilus II Soter ( grc, Ζωΐλος Σωτήρ, Zōïlos Sōtēr; epithet means "the Saviour") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in eastern Punjab. Bopearachchi dates his reign to c. 55–35 BC, a date approximately supported by R. C. Senior. ...

, or the hypothetical

Zoilos III Zoilus II Soter ( grc, Ζωΐλος Σωτήρ, Zōïlos Sōtēr; epithet means "the Saviour") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in eastern Punjab. Bopearachchi dates his reign to c. 55–35 BC, a date approximately supported by R. C. Senior. ...

. Bhadayasa is generally considered a successor of Rajuvula in the Eastern Punjab. However, since his coinage is copied from

rather than the later Strato II or Strato III (whom Rajuvula imitated), Jakobsson places Bhadayasa before the rule of these last kings, around 35 BCE.J. Jakobsson, �
A Possible New Indo-Greek King Zoilos III, and an Analysis of Realism on Indo-Greek Royal Portraits
�� NC 170 (2010), pp. 38 At around the same time, the Indo-Scythian ruler Sodasa, son of Rajuvula, ruled in Mathura.

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