Pushkarasarin (Sanskrit: Puṣkarasārin) or Pukkusati (Pali: Pukkusāti) was a king of the Iron Age Indo-Aryan kingdom of Gandhāra during the 6th century BCE.
Puṣkarasārin was successful in this struggle with Pradyota, but this led to a war between him and the Pāṇḍava tribe located in the Punjab region, and who were threatened by his expansionist policy.
[5] However, according to the scholar Buddha Prakash, Puṣkarasārin might have acted as a bulwark against the Expansion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire into north-west South Asia.
This hypothesis posits that the army which Nearchus claimed Cyrus had lost in Gedrosia had in fact been defeated by Puṣkarasārin's Gāndhārī kingdom.
[1] However, the presence of Gandhāra, referred to as Gandāra in Old Persian, among the list of Achaemenid provinces in Darius's Behistun Inscription confirms that his empire had inherited this region from conquests carried out earlier by Cyrus.