Agguka I

{{short description|8th c. commander of the Saindhava}}

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|name = Agguka I

|title = Maharaja of Saindhava

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|predecessor = Krishnaraja I{{cite book|author=Dilip K. Chakrabarty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EIAyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102|publisher=Oxford University Press|title=The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties|year= 2010|isbn=9780199088324}}

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|dynasty = Saindhava

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Agguka I (r. {{circa|770}} – {{circa|790}}) was a ruler of the Saindhava dynasty{{cite book|author=John Middleton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R63ACQAAQBAJ&pg=PA489|publisher=Routledge|title=World Monarchies and Dynasties|year= 2015|isbn=9781317451587|page=489}} and the commander of the Saindhava naval fleet during the last quarter of 8th century. He was the son of Krishnaraj.

During his reign the Arabs made a fresh bid to establish their supremacy over Saurashtra. In 756, the Arab governor of Sindh sent a naval fleet against the Saindhavas. This naval attack was repulsed by the Saindhavas as they had a strong naval forces. Later in 776, another naval expedition by the Arabs was defeated by the Saindhava naval fleet under the command of Agguka I. A Saindhava inscription relates that Agguka I inflicted a disastrous defeat on the Arab naval fleets which forced the Arabs to withdraw. After this the Caliph Al-Mahdi gave up the project of conquering any part of India through the Navy. In the Saindhava inscription he was titled as Samudradhipati or Master of the western sea.{{cite journal |last= Kumar|first= Amit|year= 2012|title= Maritime History of India: An Overview|journal= Maritime Affairs:Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India|publisher= Taylor & Francis|volume= 8|issue= 1|pages= 93–115|doi= 10.1080/09733159.2012.690562|s2cid= 108648910|quote= "In 776 AD, Arabs tried to invade Sind again but were defeated by the Saindhava naval fleet. A Saindhava inscription provides information about these naval actions."}}{{cite book|author=Sailendra Nath Sen|title=Ancient Indian History and Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&pg=PA343|date=1 January 1999|publisher=New Age International|isbn=978-81-224-1198-0|pages=343–344}}