Kharapallana
Kharapallana (Brahmi: Kha-ra-pa-llā-na, Kharapallāna;Greek: Ancient Greek: Χαροβαλανο Kharobalano;[1] from Saka *Xāravalāna "splendid youth"[2]) was an Indo-Scythian Northern Satrap who ruled around c. 130 CE. He is mentioned as a "Great Satrap" (Brahmi:, Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satrap") of Kushan ruler Kanishka I on an inscription discovered in Sarnath, and dated to the 3rd year of Kanishka (c. 130 CE), in which Kanishka mentions he was, together with Satrap Vanaspara, governor of the eastern parts of his Empire.[3]
The inscription was discovered on an early statue of a Boddhisattva, the Sarnath Bala Boddhisattva, now in the Sarnath Museum .[4]
Vanaspara and Kharapallana were ruling for Kanishka over the eastern provinces of the Empire, including the Benares region.[5]
References[]
- ^ F.W. Thomas (1913). "The Date of Kanishka". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (3): 630. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00045160. JSTOR 25189072.
- ^ Harmatta, Janos 1999, Languages and scripts in Graeco-Bactria and the Saka kingdoms in Harmatta, J, BNPuri and GF Etemadi (eds), History of civilizations of Central Asia,volume II, The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizations: 700 BC to AD 250, Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi, p. 401.
- ^ Source: "A Catalogue of the Indian Coins in the British Museum. Andhras etc..." Rapson, p ciii
- ^ Papers on the Date of Kaniṣka, Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Brill Archive, 1969, p.271 [1]
- ^ Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Ram Sharan Sharma, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1991 p.295 [2]
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