Bhartrdaman was a
Saka
The Saka ( Old Persian: ; Kharoṣṭhī: ; Ancient Egyptian: , ; , old , mod. , ), Shaka (Sanskrit ( Brāhmī): , , ; Sanskrit (Devanāgarī): , ), or Sacae (Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples who hist ...
ruler of the
Western Kshatrapas
The Western Satraps, or Western Kshatrapas (Brahmi:, ''Mahakṣatrapa'', "Great Satraps") were Indo-Scythian (Saka) rulers of the western and central part of India ( Saurashtra and Malwa: modern Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh ...
in northwestern
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
from around 278 to 295.
[Senior, Robert C. ''Indo-Scythian Coins and History'', Lancaster: Classical Numismatic Group, 2001.] For the first four years, his coins name him only as ''kshatrapa'', after which time his coins name him ''mahakshatrapa''. He was the second of two sons of
Rudrasena II
Rudrasena II () was a ruler of the Pravarapura-Nandivardhana branch of the Vakataka dynasty. While his reign was short, he notably married Prabhavatigupta, the daughter of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II. His early death led to Prabhavatigupt ...
who came to the throne, after his brother
Visvasimha, and was among the last rulers of the Kardamaka dynasty.
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Coins of Bhartrdaman
Western Satraps
3rd-century monarchs in Asia
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3rd-century Indian monarchs
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