[Deccan Recovered by the Andhras, A.D. 138.] On Nahapána's death his territory, which in the absence of a son had probably passed to his son-in-law Ushavadáta, seems to have been wrested from him by his Ándhra neighbours, as one of the attributes of Gautamíputra Sátakarni is exterminator of the dynasty of Khakharáta (or Kshaharáta). That North Konkan, South Gujarát, and Káthiáváda were taken and incorporated with Ándhra territory appears from Gautamíputra's Násik inscription (No. 26) where Suráshtra and Aparánta are mentioned as parts of his dominions. These Ándhra conquests seem to have been shortlived. Chashtana appears to have eventually taken Káthiáváda and as much of South Gujarát as belonged to Nahapána probably as far south as the Narbada. Mevád, Málwa, North and South Gujarát and Káthiáváda would then be subject to him and justify the title Mahákshatrapa on his later coins. [The Mevas or Medas.] The bulk of Chashtana's army seems to have consisted of the Mevas or Medas from whose early conquests and settlements in Central Rájputána the province seems to have received its present name Meváda. If this supposition be correct an inference may be drawn regarding the origin of Chashtana. The Mathurá inscription of Nandasiriká, daughter of Kshatrapa Rájavula and mother of Kharaosti Yuvarája, mentions with respect a Mahákshatrapa Kuzulko Patika who is called in the inscription Mevaki that is of the Meva tribe. The inscription shows a relation between the Kharaostis (to which tribe we have taken Kshaharáta Nahapána to belong) and Mevaki Patika perhaps in the nature of subordinate and overlord. It proves at least that the Kharaostis held Patika in great honour and respect. The Taxila plate shows that Patika was governor of Taxila during his father's lifetime. After his father's death when he became Mahákshatrapa, Patika's capital was Nagaraka in the Jallálábád or Kábul valley. The conquest of those parts by the great Kushán or Indo-Skythian king Kanishka (A.D. 78) seems to have driven Patika's immediate successors southwards to Sindh where they may have established a kingdom. The Skythian kingdom mentioned by the author of the Periplus as stretching in his time as far south as the mouths of the Indus may be a relic of this kingdom. Some time after their establishment in Sindh Patika's successors may have sent Chashtana, either a younger member of the reigning house or a military officer, with an army of Mevas through Umarkot and the Great Ran to Central Rájputána, an expedition which ended in the settlement of the Mevas and the change of the country's name to Meváda. Probably it was on account of their previous ancestral connection that Nahapána sent Ushavadáta to help Chashtana in Meváda when besieged by his Málava neighbours. That Ushavadáta went to bathe and make gifts [93] at Pushkara proves that the scene of the Uttamabhadras' siege by the Málayas was in Meváda not far from Pushkara.