sentences:  According to Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya, Simuka was the person who revived the Satavahana rule after the Kanva interregnum, and thus a founder of the 'second' Satavahana dynasty; the compilers of the Puranas have confused his name with the founder of the original dynasty.According to Charles Higham, the coin-based evidence suggests that Simuka's reign ended sometime before 120 BCE.Himanshu Prabha Ray also dates Simuka to somewhere before 100 BCE, Andrew Ollett, in a recent analysis, regards the possible period of his reign as 120 - 96 BCE.