Question

The coins of Gautami Putra Satakarni were found at
a. Ballari
b. Srikakulam
c. Kadalur
d. Vengi

Answer 1

Hint: Caverns exhumed by Gautamiputra Satakarni just as the Western Kshatrapa ruler Nahapana is situated at Nashik. The Nashik prashasti engraving states that Gautamiputra evacuated the Kshaharata (or Khagarata) family, to which Nahapana had a place. The Nashik engraving dated to the eighteenth year of Gautamiputra's rule expresses that he reaffirmed an award of land to Buddhist priests living at the Triraśmi top. This land was previously in the ownership of Nahapana's child in-law Rishabhadatta (otherwise called Ushavadata), who had given it to the priests.

Complete solution:
A hoard of Nahapana's coins, found at Jogalthambi in the Nashik area, incorporates coins re-struck by Gautamiputra. These coins include an angled chaitya (Buddhist altar) and the "Ujjain image" (a cross with four circles toward the end).
The coins of Satavahanas were exhumed from Deccan, western India, Vidarbha, and were found in Kadalur in huge numbers.
Few of the coins are A coin of Nahapana, re-struck by Gautamiputra Satakarni, and A silver coin, perhaps of Gautamiputra Satakarni

The dominant part of the coins bears the names "Satakarni" and "Pulumavi".

Hence, the correct answer is option C.

Note:
Most Historians currently concur that Gautamiputra and Nahapana were counterparts and that Gautamiputra crushed Nahapana. M. K. Dhavalikar dates this occasion to c. 124 CE, which as per him, was the eighteenth regnal year of Gautamiputra. R.C.C. Fynes dates the occasion to at some point after 71 CE, in a similar line, Shailendra Bhandare places the triumph of Gautamiputra and the finish of Nahapana's rule to the beginning of Saka period, 78 CE, in the time of Castana's increase, and considers Gautamiputra's entire rule to ca. 60-85 CE