trade that was carried on during this period. In fact trade is the factor which
lends to this period of seeming confusion, a consistency and continuity, and
this so called ‘Dark Age’ was in fact one of considerable economic prosperity
and cultural synthesis.
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Indigenous Dynasties
• Sungas of Vidisa: Pyshyamitra
• Kanvas of Pataliputra: Vasudeva
• Ganarajyas of Indo-Gangetic divide
• Satavahanas of Deccan (Dhanyakatak & Pratisthana): Sri Satakarni