{"id":4199,"date":"2019-08-26T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2019-08-26T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T10:44:15","slug":"guptas-and-post-gupta-in-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/guptas-and-post-gupta-in-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Guptas And Post-Gupta: In Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper I: Indian History: Ancient<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about their history through inscriptions and coins.<\/li>\n<li>Changragupta was followed by Samudragupta.<\/li>\n<li>Samudragupta, Gupta ruler (1700 years ago, ie AD 300). Harisena was his court poet.<\/li>\n<li>Chandragupta, his father, was the first ruler of the Gupta dynasty to adopt the grand title of maharaj- adhiraja, a title that Samudragupta also used.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPrashasti\u201d = inscription \u2018in praise of\u2019. Prashasti about Samudragupta was inscribed on the Asokan piller at Allahabad (Prayag).<\/li>\n<li>Four different kinds of rulers in different parts of India\/Nepal\/Srilanka either surrendered to him or made alliances. (Eg: Aryavartha, Dakshinapatha, gana sanghas etc).<\/li>\n<li>Main centers of Guptas: Prayag (Allahabad, UP), Ujjain (Avanti, MP) and Pataliputra (Patna, Bihar).<\/li>\n<li>Samudragupta\u2019s son = Chandragupta II. Kalidasa and Aryabhata adorned his court. He overcame the last Sakas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HARSHAVARDHANA &amp;\u00a0 HARSHACHARITA<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about their history through biographies.<\/li>\n<li>He belonged to Pushyabhuti Dynasty when Gupta dynasty was fading.<\/li>\n<li>His court poet, Banabhatta, wrote his biography, the Harshacharita, in Sanskrit.<\/li>\n<li>Xuan Zang, spent a lot of time at Harsha\u2019s court and left a detailed account of what he saw.<\/li>\n<li>Harsha took over the kingdom of Kanauj, and then led an army against the ruler of Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>Although he was successful in the east, and conquered both Magadha and Bengal, he was not as successful elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>He tried to cross the Narmada to march into the Deccan, but was stopped by a ruler belonging to the Chalukya dynasty, Pulakeshin II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THE PALLAVAS, CHALUKYAS AND PULAKESHIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Pallavas and Chalukyas were the most important ruling dynasties in south India during this period.<\/li>\n<li>The kingdom of the Pallavas around their capital, Kanchipuram, to the Kaveri delta, while that of the Chalukyas [Aihole, the capital ] was centred around the Raichur Doab, between the rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra.<\/li>\n<li>The Pallavas and Chalukyas frequently raided one another\u2019s lands which were properous ones.<\/li>\n<li>The best-known Chalukya ruler was Pulakeshin II. We know about him from a prashasti, composed by his court poet Ravikirti.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately, both the Pallavas and the Chalukyas gave way to new rulers belonging to the Rashtrakuta and Chola dynasties.<\/li>\n<li>Land revenue remained important for these rulers, and the village remained the basic unit of administration<\/li>\n<li>There were military leaders who provided the king with troops whenever he needed them. These men were known as samantas.<\/li>\n<li>The inscriptions of the Pallavas mention a number of local assemblies. These included the sabha, which was an assembly of brahmin land owners.<\/li>\n<li>And the nagaram was an organisation of merchants.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese pilgrim Fa Xian noticed the plight of those who were treated as untouchables by the high and mighty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper I: Indian History: Ancient Information about their history through inscriptions and coins. 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