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Nadasi Kasa

Nadasi Kasa

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Nadasi Kasa, Nadasi Akasa, Nadadi Akasa, or Nada Diaka was the daughter of Aiyasi Kamuia
Aiyasi Kamuia
Aiyasi Kamuia was the chief queen of Saka Mahaksatrapa Rajuvula of Mathura who finds mention in the Lion Capital inscriptions of Mathura. She was a Buddhist devotee at whose behest, a relic of Buddha was established and a Stupa & Samgharama were founded, and a land grant was made to Budhila, a...

 (ie. of Kambojika or Kamboja
Kamboja
Kamboja may refer to:*Kambojas, an ancient tribe of the of the Hindukush in Iron Age India*Kamboja Kingdom, one of the Mahajanapadas of Iron Age India*Kamboja-Pala Dynasty of Bengal*Kamboj, a clan of South Asia...

 lineage), chief queen of Saka
Saka
The Saka were a Scythian tribe, rendered in Greek as , in Chinese as , and in Sanskrit as , referring to those Scythians who founded the Indo-Scythian kingdom in the 2nd century BC.-Classical accounts:Modern historical accounts of the Indo-Scythian wars often assume that the Scythian...

 Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula
Rajuvula
Rajuvula was an Indo-Scythian Great Satrap who ruled in the area of Mathura in northern India in the years around 10 CE. In central India, the Indo-Scythians conquered the area of Mathura over Indian kings around 60 BCE...

, according to the genealogy
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...

 table prepared by Dr S. Konow . She finds mention in inscription no A-5 of the Mathura Lion Capital
Mathura lion capital
The Mathura lion capital is a 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...

 (q.v.). Dr F. W. Thomas has read this name as Nadadi (Nadasi)- Akasa, Dr Bühler however, has read it as Nadasia Kasaye, but Dr Sten Konow, on the other hand, reads it as Nada Diaka .
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Nadasi Kasa, Nadasi Akasa, Nadadi Akasa, or Nada Diaka was the daughter of Aiyasi Kamuia
Aiyasi Kamuia
Aiyasi Kamuia was the chief queen of Saka Mahaksatrapa Rajuvula of Mathura who finds mention in the Lion Capital inscriptions of Mathura. She was a Buddhist devotee at whose behest, a relic of Buddha was established and a Stupa & Samgharama were founded, and a land grant was made to Budhila, a...

 (ie. of Kambojika or Kamboja
Kamboja
Kamboja may refer to:*Kambojas, an ancient tribe of the of the Hindukush in Iron Age India*Kamboja Kingdom, one of the Mahajanapadas of Iron Age India*Kamboja-Pala Dynasty of Bengal*Kamboj, a clan of South Asia...

 lineage), chief queen of Saka
Saka
The Saka were a Scythian tribe, rendered in Greek as , in Chinese as , and in Sanskrit as , referring to those Scythians who founded the Indo-Scythian kingdom in the 2nd century BC.-Classical accounts:Modern historical accounts of the Indo-Scythian wars often assume that the Scythian...

 Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula
Rajuvula
Rajuvula was an Indo-Scythian Great Satrap who ruled in the area of Mathura in northern India in the years around 10 CE. In central India, the Indo-Scythians conquered the area of Mathura over Indian kings around 60 BCE...

, according to the genealogy
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...

 table prepared by Dr S. Konow . She finds mention in inscription no A-5 of the Mathura Lion Capital
Mathura lion capital
The Mathura lion capital is a 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...

 (q.v.). Dr F. W. Thomas has read this name as Nadadi (Nadasi)- Akasa, Dr Bühler however, has read it as Nadasia Kasaye, but Dr Sten Konow, on the other hand, reads it as Nada Diaka .

See also

  • Kamuia
    Kamuia
    Kamuia or Kamuio is the family name used by some members of king Maues or Moga’s family. For example, in the Mathura Lion Capital Inscriptions, last name Kamuia has been used after the name of princess Aiyasi and its modified form Kamuio after the name of her father, Yuvaraja Kharaosta...

  • 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 :...

  • Aiyasi Kamuia
    Aiyasi Kamuia
    Aiyasi Kamuia was the chief queen of Saka Mahaksatrapa Rajuvula of Mathura who finds mention in the Lion Capital inscriptions of Mathura. She was a Buddhist devotee at whose behest, a relic of Buddha was established and a Stupa & Samgharama were founded, and a land grant was made to Budhila, a...

  • Kharaosta Kamuio or Kharahostes
    Kharahostes
    Kharahostes or Kharaostasa was an Indo-Scythian ruler in the northern Indian subcontinent around 10 BCE- 10 CE. He is known from his coins, often in the name of Azes II, and from an inscription on the Mathura lion capital....

  • Maues
    Maues
    Maues was an Indo-Scythian king from modern Afghanistan who reigned circa 85-60 BCE, and invaded the Indo-Greek territories of modern Pakistan.-Conqueror of Gandhara:...

  • Rajuvula
    Rajuvula
    Rajuvula was an Indo-Scythian Great Satrap who ruled in the area of Mathura in northern India in the years around 10 CE. In central India, the Indo-Scythians conquered the area of Mathura over Indian kings around 60 BCE...