Bhartrdaman was a
Saka
The Saka, Old Chinese, old , Pinyin, mod. , ), Shaka (Sanskrit (Brāhmī): , , ; Sanskrit (Devanāgarī): , ), or Sacae (Ancient Greek: ; Latin: were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples, Eastern Iranian peoples who lived in the Eurasian ...
ruler of the
Western Kshatrapas in northwestern
India
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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 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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