Nadasi Kasa

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Nadasi Kasa, Nadasi Akasa, Nadadi Akasa, or Nada Diaka was the daughter of Aiyasi Kamuia (ie. of Kambojika or Kamboja lineage), chief queen of Saka Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula, according to the geneaology table prepared by Dr S. Konow [1]. She finds mention in inscription no A-5 of the Mathura Lion Capital (q.v.). Dr F. W. Thomas has read this name as Nadadi (Nadasi)- Akasa[2], Dr Bühler however, has read it as Nadasia Kasaye, but Dr Sten Konow, on the other hand, reads it as Nada Diaka [3].

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  1. ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, II. I. 47.
  2. ^ Epigraphia.Indica., IX, p 135.
  3. ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, II. I. 47; Political History of Ancient India, 1996, p 394, Dr H. C. Raychaudhury, Dr B. N. Mukerjee.

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