page_title: Rudradaman I
section_title: Other facts
hierarchical_section_title: Rudradaman I / Other facts
caption_attribution_description: English: This image is of Ashoka's Rock edict at Junagadh. I have captured it when I visited Janagadh early 2007.
context_page_description: Rudradāman I was a Śaka ruler from the Western Kshatrapas dynasty. He was the grandson of the king Caṣṭana. Rudradāman I was instrumental in the decline of the Sātavāhana Empire. Rudradāman I took up the title of Maha-kshtrapa, after he became the king and then strengthened his kingdom.
context_section_description: The Sanskrit Junagadh inscription dated 150 CE credits Rudradāman I with supporting the cultural arts and Sanskrit literature and repairing the dam built by the Mauryans. He in fact repaired the embankments of the lake Sudarśana, which was constructed by the Mauryas for checking floods.
  Rudradāman fought many a battle against the Sātavāhanas (or the Āndhras) and Vashishtiputra Satakarni, the son of the Āndhra king Pulamayi, in an effort to end the hostilities, married the daughter of Rudradāman. The inscription relating the marriage between Rudradāman's daughter and Vashishtiputra Satakarni appears in a cave at Kanheri:
  "0f the queen ... of the illustrious Satakarni Vasishthiputra, descended from the race of Karddamaka kings, (and) daughter of the Mahakshatrapa Ru(dra)....... .........of the confidential minister Sateraka, a water-cistern, the meritorious gift.
  — Kanheri inscription of Rudradaman I's daughter".
  Rudradāman also conquered the Yaudheya tribes in Haryana, as described in the Girnar inscription:
  "Rudradaman (...) who by force destroyed the Yaudheyas who were loath to submit, rendered proud as they were by having manifested their' title of' heroes among all Kshatriyas."
  — Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman
  However, in the next century the warlike Yaudheyas became more powerful. The indigenous Nagas also were aggressive toward Śaka kshatrapas in the 3rd century.
  Rudradāman is also known as the king who was ruling when the Greek writer Yavanesvara translated the Yavanajataka from Greek to Sanskrit, which influenced astrology in India.
caption: The Junagadh rock contains inscriptions by Ashoka (fourteen of the Edicts of Ashoka), Rudradāman I and Skandagupta.
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