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| conventional_long_name = Dattas of Mathura
| common_name = Datta dynasty
| year_start = 1st century BCE
| year_end = 1st century BCE
| event_end =
| capital = [[Mathura]]
| government_type = Monarchy
| p1 = Deva dynasty (Saketa){{!}}Deva dynasty
| p2 = Indo-Greek Kingdom{{!}}Indo-Greeks
| s1 = Mitra dynasty (Mathura){{!}}Mitra dynatsy
| s2 = Northern Satraps
| s3 = Indo-Scythians{{!}}Scythian Empire
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| today = [[India]]
}}

[[File:Ramadatta Mathura coin.jpg|thumb|Coin of Ramadatta. '''Obv.''' Elephant facing. '''Rev.''' Standing figure with symbols.]]
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[[File:Shivadatta of Almora.jpg|thumb|Coin of Sivadatta, minted in [[Almora]]. Obv: railing with symbol between the posts. Obv: Sivadatasa, uncertain central symbol, margin: deer and tree within railing.]]
The '''Datta dynasty''' is a dynasty of ruler who flourished in the northern [[India]] in the areas of [[Mathura]] and [[Ayodhya]] around the 1st century BCE – 1st century CE.<ref name="Rhie 170">History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE – 100 CE, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, BRILL, 2007, p.170 [https://books.google.com/books?id=rtqvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA170]</ref> They are named after the "-datta" ending of their name, and essentially only known through they coins. It is thought that they replaced the [[Deva dynasty (Saketa)|Deva dynasty]], which had originated with the rise of [[Sunga Empire]] [[Pushyamitra]], and that they were in turn replaced by the [[Mitra dynasty (Mathura)|Mitra dynasty]].

The known Datta rulers are:<ref name="Abbasi">Dimensions of Human Cultures in Central India, A. A. Abbasi, Sarup & Sons, 2001, p.145-146 [https://books.google.com/books?id=jUwFL3IipK0C&pg=PA145]</ref>

*Seshadatta<br>
*Ramadatta<br>
*Sisuchandradatta<br>
*Sivadatta.

The coins of Ramadatta usually represent a [[Lakshmi]] standing, and facing elephants.<ref name="Abbasi"/> In the archaeological excavations of Sonkh, near Mathura, the earliest coins of the [[Northern Satraps]] level were those of [[Hagamasha]] and Ramadatta.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hartel |first1=Herbert |title=On The Cusp Of An Era Art In The Pre Kuṣāṇa World |date=2007 |publisher=BRILL |page=324 |url=https://archive.org/details/OnTheCuspOfAnEraArtInThePreKuaWorldDMSrinivasanEdBrill_201807/page/n329 |language=English}}</ref>

The Datta rulers are never mentioned as "king" or ''Raja'' on their coins, suggesting that they may only have been local rulers subservient to another king. Since the [[Indo-Greeks]] were in control of [[Mathura]] around the same time frame (150–50 BCE) according to the [[Yavanarajya inscription]], it is thought that there may have been a sort of tributary relationship between the local Datta or [[Mitra dynasty (Mathura)|Mitra dynasty]] and the Indo-Greek kings.<ref name="Rhie">History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE – 100 CE, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, BRILL, 2007, p.8–10 [https://books.google.com/books?id=X7Cb8IkZVSMC&pg=PA8]</ref> Alternatively, the Datta and Mitra dynasties of rulers may simply have replaced Indo-Greek rule in the region, before the advent of the [[Indo-Scythian]] [[Northern Satraps]] and then the [[Kushans]].

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Mathura Uttamadatta.jpg|Coin of Uttamadatta.
Mathura Purushadatta.jpg|Coin of Purushadatta.
Mathura Ramadatta.jpg|Coin of Ramadatta.
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==References==
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[[Category:Mathura]]
[[Category:Dynasties of India]]

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