Śanakanika Maharaja

Śanakanika Maharaja was a feudatory of Chandragupta II or Vikramaditya of the Gupta Dynasty.^[1] Śanakanika Maharaja is known from his record on his gift on a Vaishnavism cave temple at Udayagiri, which is dated 82.^[2][3][4]

Śanakanika Maharaja
Maharaja of the Sanakanika tribe
Reign	(around c. 380 CE- around c. 400 CE )
Predecessor	Maharaja Visnudasa
Successor	?
Dynasty	Sanakanika
Father	Maharaja Visnudasa

Life

He hailed from the tribal community of the Sanakanikas, a tribe who possibly held the province of Vidisha.^[3][4]

The Sanakanika feudatory chief of Chandragupta II, as well as his father and grandfather, bore the title Maharaja.^[3] The Sanakanikas appear to have been subjugated by the powerful Gupta emperor Samudragupta, the father of Chandragupta II. Śanakanika Maharaja's father's name was 'Visnudasa', and his grandfather's name was Chagalaga.^{[citation needed]}