GUPTA DYNASTY ( RULERS AND FOUNDERS)

* SRI GUPTA ( FOUNDER OF GUPTA DYNASTY) 

* FOUNDED GUPTA DYNASTY BETWEEN (240 - 280 CE) 

* GHATOTKACHA ( SON OF SRI GUPTA ) & SUCCESSOR 

* CHANDRAGUPTA I - 

( SON AND SUCCESSOR OF SRI GUPTA) 

( CORONATION IN 320 AD) 

( FIRST KING OF GUPTA DYNASTY TO ADOPT THE TITLE OF MAHARAJADHIRAJ) 

* EVIDENCE OF CHANDRAGUPTA-1 

- ALLAHABAD PILLAR INSCRIPTION 

( SAMUDRAGUPTA'S COURT POET HARISENA INSCRIPTION WROTE IN SANSKRIT 

* CHANDRAGUPTA -I WAS THE RULER WHO ISSUED FIRST GOLD COIN - 

* MEHRAULI PILLAR INSCRIPTION IN DELHI ) 

* ERAN STONE INSCRIPTIONN ( DESCRIBES SAMUDRAGUPTA SUCCESSOR OF CHANDRAGUPTA 1) 

* SAMUDRAGUPTA - ( 

* SON & SUCCESSOR OF CHANDRAGUPTA 1 

* PERFORMED ASHWAMEDHA YAJNA & ISUUE GOLD COIN 

* SAMUDRAGUPTA DEFEATED SHAKAS & KUSHANA 

- HARISENA WAS THE COURT POET 

- VAKATAKA INSCRIPTION 

- ERAN INSCRIPTION 

* CHANDRAGUPTA -2 ( KNOWN AS - VIKRAMADITYA) 

- SON & SUCCESSOR OF SAMUDRAGUPTA &  MOTHER - DATTADEVI 

- DEFEATED RUDRASENA 3 & ANNEXED HIS KINGDOM 

- DEFEATED SAKAS & ANNEXED MALWA REGION 

* UDAYAGIRI CAVES ( SANCHI) - 

* GOLD COINAGE ( ARCHER, LION SLAYER) 

* CHINESE BUDDHIST MONK FA-HIEN VISITED INDIA (  400-411 CE) 

* HARSHACHARITA & DEVI CHANDRAGUPTAM 

( HARSHACHARITA WRITTEN BY BANABHATTA) 

* HE DEFEATED THE WESTERN KHATRAPAS 

* UJJAIN BECAME COMMERCIA CENTRE ( AND CAPITAL OF MALWA) 

KUMARGUPTA -1 - (415- 455 CE) 

* SON & SUCCESSOR OF CHANDRAGUPTA II 

* FOUNDING CREDIT OF NALANDA UNIVERSITY 

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* SKANDAGUPTA - (455-467 CE) 

* LAST GREAT RULER OF GUPTA EMPIRE 

* SUCCEDDED BY HIS BROTHER PURUGUPTA 

* RESTORED THE DAMS ON SUDARSANA LAKE 

EVIDENCES - 

* BHITARI PILLAR INSCRIPTION ( HIS VICTORY OVER HUNAS DESCRIBED IN THIS INSCRIPTION ) & DEFEATING PUSHYAMITRA ( LOCATED IN UTTAR PRADESH) 

* WRITTEN IN NORTHERN BRAHMI LANGUAGE 

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* JUNAGADH ROCK INSCRIPTION - (  GUJARAT) 

* HIS GOVERNOR - PARNADATTA 

( MENTIONED SKANDAGUPTA WAS THE SUCCESSOR OF KUMARGUPTA ( BY ITS OWN POWER) 

* ( DESCRIBED DEFEATED THE FOREGINER ( MLECHCHHAS) 

* RECORDED THE RESTORATION OF LAKE 

KAHAUM STONE PILLAR INSCRIPTION - 

( THIS INSCRIPTION DENOTES HE HAS ANOTHER NAME) 

* HE WAS KNOWN AS SHAKRADITYA 

COIN DURING SKANDAGUPTA 

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