The Western Sátrapas, or Kshaharatas (35-405) were rulers of the western and central parts of India (Saurashtra and Malwa: modern Gujarat, Maharastra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh).
They were contemporaries of the Kushán, who ruled the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and was possibly their lords, and of the Satavahana (Andhra) who ruled in Central India. They are called "Western" in contrast to the "North", Indo-Scythian satraps who ruled in the Mathura area, such as Rajuvula, and their successors under the Kushán, the "Great Sátrapa" Kharapallana, and the "Sátrapa" Vanaspara. They called themselves "Sátrapas" on their coins, leading to the modern designation of "Western Sátrapas", Claudio Ptolemy in their "Geographia" of the 2nd century, still calling them "Indo-Scythians." from the rulers saces began to decline in the second century AD, after they were defeated by the southern Indian emperor Gautamiputra Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty, later the sace kingdom was completely destroyed by Chandragupta II of the Gupta Empire in the 4th century dC.
In total, there were 27 independent Western satraps, who ruled for a period of about 350 years. The word Kshatrapa, translated by sátrapa, comes from the old Persian, and means viceroy or governor of a province. Notes
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