Śanakanika Maharaja

Śanakanika Maharaja
Maharaja of the Sanakanika tribe
Reign	(around c. 380 CE- around c. 400 CE )
Predecessor	Maharaja Visnudasa
Successor	?
Dynasty	Sanakanika
Father	Maharaja Visnudasa

Śanakanika Maharaja was a feudatory of Chandragupta II or Vikramaditya of the Gupta Dynasty.^[1] Śanakanika Maharaja is known from his record on his gift on a Vaishnavism cave temple at Udayagiri, which is dated 82.^[2][3][4]

Life

He hailed from the tribal community of the Sanakanikas, a tribe who possibly held the province of Vidisha.^[3][4]

The Sanakanika feudatory chief of Chandragupta II, as well as his father and grandfather, bore the title Maharaja.^[3] The Sanakanikas appear to have been subjugated by the powerful Gupta emperor Samudragupta, the father of Chandragupta II. Śanakanika Maharaja's father's name was 'Visnudasa', and his grandfather's name was Chagalaga.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. R. C. Majumdar (1981). A Comprehensive History of India. Vol. 3, Part I: A.D. 300-985. Indian History Congress / People's Publishing House. p. 52-54. OCLC 34008529.
2. Agrawal, Ashvini (1989). Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 5. ISBN 8120805925. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
3. Rapson, Edward James (2015). Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty - Scholar's Choice Edition (illustrated ed.). Creative Media Partners, LLC. p. 520. ISBN 978-1298395245. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
4. Radhakumud Mookerji (1997). The Gupta Empire (Paperback). Motilal Banarsidass. p. 38. ISBN 9788120804401.