Western Satraps

Great Satraps Mahakṣatrapa
35–415 CE
KAMARUPAS GAUDA South-Asia c. 350 CE IKSHVAKUS KALABHRAS WESTERN GANGAS KADAMBAS PALLAVAS LITTLE KUSHANS SASANIAN HIND MAHAMEGHA- VAHANAS SAMATATAS ABHIRAS VAKATAKAS GUPTA EMPIRE KIDARITES KUSHANO- SASANIANS SASANIAN EMPIRE ◁ ▷ Approximate territory of the Western Satraps (35–415) circa 350 CE.[1]
Capital	Ujjain Barygaza Minnagara
Common languages	Pali (Kharoshthi script) Sanskrit, Prakrit (Brahmi script)
Religion	Hinduism Buddhism
Government	Monarchy
Satrap
• c. 35	Abhiraka
• 388–415	Rudrasimha III
Historical era	Antiquity
• Established	35
• Disestablished	415 CE
Preceded by Succeeded by Indo-Scythians Malavas Satavahana dynasty Gupta Empire Vakataka dynasty Kalachuris of Mahishmati Traikutaka dynasty Kingdom of Valabhi
Today part of	India Pakistan

The Western Satraps, or Western Kshatrapas (Brahmi:, Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps") were Indo-Scythian (Saka) rulers of the western and central parts of India (extending from Saurashtra in the south and Malwa in the east, covering modern-day Sindh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states), between 35 and 415 CE. The Western Satraps were contemporaneous with the Kushans who ruled the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, and were possibly vassals of the Kushans. They were also contemporaneous with the Satavahana who ruled in Central India. They are called "Western Satraps" in modern historiography in order to differentiate them from the "Northern Satraps", who ruled in Punjab and Mathura until the 2nd century CE.

The power of the Western Satraps started to decline in the 2nd century CE after the Saka rulers were defeated by the Emperor Gautamiputra Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty.^[2] After this, the Saka kingdom revived, but was ultimately defeated by Chandragupta II of the Gupta Empire in the 4th century CE.^[3]