The rulers of which of the following dynasty have been called as 'Shriparvatiya' in Puranas?

1. A

   Vakatakas

   (a) Vakatakas. Puranas treat the Vakatakas as a Deccan house of the Vindhyan–Vidarbha belt, not as Shriparvatiya. Their capital trail is Nandivardhana and Pravarapura.

2. B

   Ikshvakus

   (b) Ikshvakus. Puranic lists call the Andhra Ikshvakus of the Krishna–Guntur region Shriparvatiya, after Sriparvata (Nagarjunakonda). That is the official key; the label is not used for Vakatakas, Shakas or Kharavela.

3. C

   Shaks

   (c) Shaks. Shaka/Kshatrapa houses are western and north-western in the Puranic and epigraphic map, not Sriparvata Andhra.

4. D

   Kharavelas

   (d) Kharavelas. Kharavela is the Chedi–Mahameghavahana king of Kalinga, known from the Hathigumpha inscription, not from a Puranic Shriparvatiya tag.

Summary. Official key is (b) Ikshvakus. The Puranas name the post-Satavahana Ikshvakus of coastal Andhra as Shriparvatiya, linking them to Sriparvata. Vakatakas belong to Vidarbha, Shakas to the west, and Kharavela to Kalinga. Only the Ikshvaku house carries that Puranic epithet on this paper.