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 194 THE SUNGA, KANVA, AND ANDHRA DYNASTIES satrap Rudradaman, grandson of Chashtana, assumed the government of the western provinces. His daugh- ter, Dakshamitra, was married to Pulumayi, but this relationship did not deter Rudradaman, who was an ambitious and energetic prince, from levying war upon his son-in-law. The satrap was victorious, and when the conflict was renewed, success still attended on his arms (145 A. D.). Moved by natural affection for his daughter, the victor did not pursue his advantage to the uttermost, and was content with the retrocession of territory, while abstaining from inflicting utter ruin upon his opponent. The peninsula of Kathiawar, or Surashtra, the whole of Malwa, Kachchh (Cutch), Sind, and the Konkan, or territory between the Western Ghats and the sea, besides some adjoining districts, thus passed under the sway of the satraps, and were definitely detached from the Andhra dominions. Although Pulumayi II was a son of Vilivayakura II, his accession seems to mark a dynastic epoch, empha- sized by a transfer of the capital and the abandonment of the peculiar type of coinage known to numismatists as the " bow and arrow," favoured by the Vilivayakura group. The western capital, which in the time of Vili- vayakura II (Baleokouros) had been at a town called Hippokoura by Ptolemy, probably the modern Kol- hapur, was removed by Pulumayi n to Paithan, or Paithana, on the upper waters of the Godavari, two hundred miles farther north. Pulumayi n enjoyed a long reign over the territories diminished by the