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Indo-Scythian Northern Satrap, ruled circa 130 CE
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Kharapallana (ruled circa 130 CE) was an Indo-Scythian Northern Satrap. He is mentioned as a "Great Satrap" of Kushan ruler Kanishka I on an inscription discovered in Sarnath, and dated to the 3rd year of Kanishka (c. 130 CE), in which Kanishka mentions he was, together with Satrap Vanaspara, governor of the eastern parts of his Empire, while a "General Lala" and Satraps Vespasi and Liaka are put in charge of the north.
The inscription was discovered on an early statue of a Boddhisattva, the Sarnath Bala Boddhisattva, now in the Sarnath Museum .
Vanaspara and Kharapallana were ruling for Kanishka over the eastern provinces of the Empire, including the Benares region.