Rajuvula
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in the years around 10 CE. In central India, the Indo-Scythians conquered the area of Mathura over Indian kings around 60 BCE. Some of their satrap
Satrap
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s were Hagamasha and Hagana, who were in turn followed by Rajuvula.
Rajuvula is thought to have invaded the last of the Indo-Greek territories in the eastern Punjab
Punjab region
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, and killed the last of the Indo-Greek kings, Strato II
Strato II
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and his son.
The Mathura lion capital
Mathura lion capital
The Mathura lion capital is an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura in Central India, dated to the 1st century CE.The capital is covered with Prakrit inscriptions in the kharoshthi script of northwestern India...
, an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura in Central India, and dated to the 1st century CE, describes in kharoshthi the gift of a stupa
Stupa
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with a relic of the Buddha
Gautama Buddha
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, by queen Nadasi Kasa
Nadasi Kasa
Nadasi Kasa was a queen of the Saka Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula, daughter of Aiyasi Kamuia.. She finds mention in inscription no A-5 of the Mathura Lion Capital.F. W...
, "the wife of Rajuvula" and "daughter of Aiyasi Kamuia", which was an older view supported by Bühler, Rapson, Lüders and others. But according to later view propounded by Sten Konow, and accepted by later scholars, the principal donor making endowments was princess Aiyasi Kamuia, "chief queen of Rajuvula" and "daughter of Yuvaraja Kharaosta Kamuio". Nadasi Kasa (or Nada Diaka) was daughter of Ayasia Kamuia.
According to an older view, Yuvarja Kharaosta Kamuio was thought to be son of Ayasi Kamuia who in turn was thought to be widow of Arta
Arta Kamuia
Arta was the elder brother of the well known Gandhara ruler Maues or Moga.Kharahostes’s own coins attest that Kshatrapa Kharaostes was the son of Artas :...
whom Rajuvula later married. Konow refuted this view, and concluded that Ayasia Kamuia, chief queen of Rajuvula, was daughter and not the mother of Kharaosta Kamuio. The fact that the last name
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'Kamuia' has been used both by Yuvaraja Kharaosta as well as princess Aiyasi clearly proves that Aiyasi Kamuia was the daughter and not mother of Yuvaraja Kharaosta Kamuio (Kambojaka), since such family-names or designations are naturally inherited from the father's side and not from the mother's. Hence, Dr Konow's interpretation appears more convincing.
Three villages with the name of Rajuwal, District Kasur, Pakistan are inhabited by Kambojah Peoples who are offsprings of King Rajuvula.
The capital also mentions the genealogy of several Indo-Scythian satraps of Mathura.
Sodasa
Sodasa
Sodasa was an Indo-Scythian, and the son of the Great Satrap of Mathura Rajuvula. He is mentioned in the Mathura lion capital.Sodasa reigned during the 1st century CE, and also took the title of Great Satrap, probably in the area of Mathura as well, but apparently under the suzerainty of the...
, son of Rajuvula, succeeded him and also made Mathura his capital.