| Succession: | Maharaja of the Sanakanika tribe |
| Reign: | (around c. 380 CE- around c. 400 CE) |
| Predecessor: | Maharaja Visnudasa |
| Successor: | ? |
| Dynasty: | Sanakanika |
| Father: | Maharaja Visnudasa |
Śanakanika Maharaja was a feudatory of Chandragupta II or Vikramaditya of the Gupta Dynasty.[1] Śanakanika Maharaja is known from his record on his gift on a Vaishnavism cave temple at Udayagiri, which is dated 82.[2] [3] [4]
He hailed from the tribal community of the Sanakanikas, a tribe who possibly held the province of Vidisha.[3] [4]
The Sanakanika feudatory chief of Chandragupta II, as well as his father and grandfather, bore the title Maharaja.[3] The Sanakanikas appear to have been subjugated by the powerful Gupta emperor Samudragupta, the father of Chandragupta II. Śanakanika Maharaja's father's name was 'Visnudasa', and his grandfather's name was Chagalaga.