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	Chandragupta Vikramaditya. Who is Chandragupta Vikramaditya? What is Chandragupta Vikramaditya? Where is Chandragupta ...
		It was under the rule of Samudragupta's son, Chandragupta II (very often referred to as Vikramaditya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) spanning 375-413/15 AD, that the Gupta empire achieved its zenith.
		Chandragupta II controlled a vast empire, from the mouth of the Ganges to the mouth of the Indus and from what is now North Pakistan down to the mouth of the Narmada.
		This is evidenced by later reports of the presence a circle of poets known as the Nine Jewels in his court (Did this inspire the latter Nine Gems of Akbar's court).
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	Gupta Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Chandragupta was the first of the Guptas to be referred to as `Maharajadhiraja' or `King of Kings'.
		Chandragupta died in 335 AD and was succeeded by his son Samudragupta, a tireless conqueror.
		Chandragupta II was succeeded by his son Kumaragupta I.
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	Chandragupta II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chandragupta II controlled a vast empire, from the mouth of the Ganges to the mouth of the Indus River and from what is now North Pakistan down to the mouth of the Narmada.
		This is evidenced by later reports of the presence a circle of poets known as the Nine_Gems in his court.
		Dating back to 4th century A.D., the pillar bears an inscription which states that it was erected as a flagstaff in honour of the Hindu god, Vishnu, and in the memory of the Gupta King Chandragupta II (375-413).
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	webindia123.com-Indian History-Ancient-THE GUPTA PERIOD
		The importance of the rule Chandragupta I centres around the influence of Kumaradevi the Lichchavi princess, coins bearing the figures of the princess speaks of the extent of her influence.
		Chandragupta became the king of Pataliputra and established a kingdom along the Ganges.
		Chandragupta Vikramaditya's miltary conquests includes the conquest of Malwa, Gujarat and Saurashtra which were under the Saka rule.
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		Chandragupta II Chandragupta II The period of prominence of the Gupta dynasty is very often referredto as the Golden Age of India.
		It was under the rule of Samudragupta 's son, Chandragupta II (very often referred to asVikramaditya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) spanning 375-413/15 AD, that the Gupta empireachieved its zenith.
		Chandragupta II controlled a vast empire, from the mouth of the Ganges to the mouthof the Indus River and from what is now North Pakistan down to the mouth of the Narmada.
	www.therfcc.org /chandragupta-ii-152727.html (406 words)

	Prinsep says that from the Iksvaku spang the two Solar dynasties of Ayodhya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In 1052 he removed the celebrated iron pillar on which the eulogy of Chandragupta Vikramaditya is incised, from its original position, probably at Mathura, and set it up in Delhi as an adjunct to a group of temples from which the Muhamaddans afterwards constructed the great mosque.
		Firstly, the inscription on the iron pillar near the so-called Kutub Minar refers to the marriage of the victorious king Vikramaditya to the princess of Balhika /Balkh region in Afghanistan.
		He got the title of Vikramaditya (son of power), Chandragupta II proved to be of the same military mettle of his father and brought large amounts of territory in Western India under the Gupta empire.
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	Gupta [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Chandragupta died in 335 Events November 7 - Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented the corn fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
		Chandragupta was already engaged to Dhruvaswamini but Ramagupta forcibly married her.
		Chandra gupta II Chandragupta IIThe period of prominence of the Gupta dynasty is very often referred to as the Golden Age of India.
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	Gupta Empire - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Chandragupta died in 335 CE and was succeeded by his son Samudragupta, a tireless conqueror.
		Chandragupta II Chandragupta II, the Son of Power (Vikramaditya), ruled until 413 CE.
		During this period, the Guptas were supportive of thriving Buddhist and Jain cultures as well, and for this reason there is also a long history of non-Hindu Gupta period art.
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	R Vikramaditya [ex-Gorshkov]
		Chandragupta II (380 to 413 AD) tried to be better than his father Samudragupta, and most historians agree, he was certainly successful.
		Vikramaditya succeeded his father Samudragupta (possibly there was another prince, or his elder brother who ruled briefly, and according to legends slayed by Shakas), and carried on the policy of `world conquest' of his predecessors.
		Vikramaditya's reign was perhaps THE most prosperous and progressive reign in the ENTIRE Indian history.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/r-vikramaditya.htm (894 words)

	Chandragupta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian king, Mauryan Empire, 322–298 BC Chandragupta I.
		Indian king, Gupta Empire, 320-335 AD Chandragupta II.
		Indian king, Gupta Empire, 375-414 AD This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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	Chandragupta Maurya - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Chandragupta Maurya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Seleucus ceded India (present-day Pakistan and part of the Punjab) and eastern Afghanistan in exchange for 500 war elephants for use in his western campaigns.
		At the end of his reign, Chandragupta Maurya abdicated and became a Jain ascetic, starving himself to death in the manner of Jain saints.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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	Encyclopedia: Malwa
		Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 322–298 BC), known to the Greeks as Sandracottus, was the first emperor of the Mauryan empire.
		Chandragupta Vikramaditya is the most famous king from this period.
		Around 500 CE, Malwa reemerged from the dissolving Gupta empire as a separate kingdom, and in 528 CE Yasodharman of Malwa defeated the Huns who had invaded India from the northwest.
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		It signaled the emergance of a leader, a Magadha ruler, Chandragupta I. Chandragupta successfully combated the foreign invasion and laid foundation of the great Gupta dynasty, the emperors of which ruled for the next 300 years, bringing the most prosperous era in Indian history.
		Ghatotkacha was succeeded by his son Chandragupta I (305-325 AD) who strengthened his kingdom by matrimonial alliance with the powerful family of Lichchavi who were rulers of Mithila.
		Vikramaditya was succeeded by his able son Kumargupta I. He maintained his hold over the vast empire of his forebears, which covered most of India except southern four states of India.
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	Gupta Empire - Articles and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Chandragupta died in 335 and was succeeded by his son Samudragupta, a tireless conquerer.
		Chandragupta II, the Son of Power (Vikramaditya), ruled until 413.
		Despite the creation of the empire through war the realm is remembered for the great growth in Hindu art, literature, culture and science, especially during the reign of Chandragupta II.
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		This event was commemorated by issue of gold coins (Many numismatic scholars believe that the coins were issued by their son Samudragupta) showing the king and the queen, a unique event that was repeated only in the roman imperial coins.
		Samudragupta was the son of Chandragupta and succeeded him in 335 CE.
		Upon Chandragupta Vikramaditya's death, his son Kumaragupta Mahendraditya ascended to the throne and ruled the Gupta empire until his death in c.
	worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C3/India/GuptaEmpire/GuptaEmpire.htm (320 words)

	Amara Sinha article - Amara Sinha 375 Sanskrit grammarian poet Vikramaditya Chandragupta Vikramaditya - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		AD 375) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.
		He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya (Chandragupta II) that flourished about AD 375.
		Amara seems to have been a Buddhist; and an early tradition asserts that his works, with one exception, were destroyed during the persecution carried on by the orthodox Brahmins in the 5th century.
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	Your own weekend E zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Chandragupta I was succeeded by his son Samudragupta (335-380 AD) who was probably the greatest king of the Gupta dynasty.
		The account of administration of Chandragupta's reign is known from the Chinese pilgrim Fa Hein who came to India during that period.
		Chandragupta II was succeeded by his son Kumargupta (415-455 AD) who was also a great ruler.
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	Ancient Bharat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		But Chandragupta, his younger brother saved the situation and killed the Saka king.Rama Gupta was succeeded by his younger brother Chandragupta II also known as Vikramaditya.
		Similarly Chandragupta II married Kuveranaga and had a daughter Prabhawati Gupta who in turn was married to a Vakataka king.
		The greatest of the military achivements of Vikramaditya was his advance to the Arabian sea and his subjugation of the peninsula of Saurashtra or Kathiawar.
	www.vandemataram.com /html/1anbht/guptaemp (581 words)

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		Chandragupta married a princess called Kumaradevi who came from a very rich and powerful family and owned vast lands.
		Chandragupta started a line of kings who ruled so well that their times are called the Golden Age of India.
		At the court of Vikramaditya, musicians, poets, painters, and writers were very welcome.
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		Emperor Ashok, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, not only ordered engraving of his famous edicts on the rock at Junagadh, but asked his Governor Tusherpha to take out canals from the lake where an earlier Maurayan Governor had built a dam.
		The Kshatrap dynasty was replaced by the Gupta reign with the conquest of Gujarat by Chandragupta Vikramaditya.
		Vikramaditya's successor Skandagupta has left an inscription (450 AD) on a rock at UJunagadh which gives details of the repairs of the embankment, damaged by floods, of Sudarshan lake by his Governor.
	www.gujaratinformation.net /html/ancient.html (2091 words)

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		Acharya Chanakya was the Guru (teacher) of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya who had prepared and helped him to gain the Magadha empire and then served as his Prime Minister, for some time, for consolidating his rule.
		For the administrative use of Chandragupta, Chanakya wrote his (Kautiliya) Artha Sastra, a work which is an important and extra-ordinarily excellent treatise on Political Science, Economics Defence and war-policy.
		Chandragupta extended the rule of Magadha so much that it reached again upto the natural boundary of India i.e.
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	kalidasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Some Indian scholars believe he existed around 1st Century BC, but others believe that his works may have been written around the middle of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D, during the reigns of Chandragupta Vikramaditya, and his successor, Kumaaragupta.
		He was one of the so-called nine gems of Vikramaditya's court in Ujjain.
		The earlier claim pointing to his existence around 1st century BC, is supported by his play on the Shunga king Agnimitra who belonged to that period.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Kalidasa.html (282 words)

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		Chandragupta Vikramaditya (A.D. 380-413), the son of Samudragupta, is one of the most familiar and celebrated names in Indian history.
		There are also references to episodes in the life of Chandragupta in literary works and inscriptions of a later period.
		Chandragupta Vikramaditya’s reign brought about peace and prosperity to a wide area extending from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea and from the Himalayas to the Vindhyas.
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	Review: Delhi Iron Pillar: New Insights
		Balasubramaniam gives even the transcripts of the inscriptions, a discussion of the history and association of DIP with Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, which are quite convincing.
		As Chandragupta II was a great devotee of Vishnu, the pillar was erected in the honour of his favourite God.
		The conquests of Chandra corroborate the conquests of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya.
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	InfoHub Forums - History of India
		His son Chandragupta I took the initial step on the road toward expanding the Gupta domain and creating a large empire.
		But Rama Gupta's brother Vikramaditya (Chandragupta II) had Shaka Satrap killed and was able to take the throne.
		Chandragupta II married the daughter of King Rudrasena II of the Deccan.
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	568. Vikramaditya - Regular Titles - Amar Chitra Katha - Navrang Inc.
		There are also references to episodes in the life of Chandragupta Vikramaditya’s reign brought peace and prosperity to a wide area extending from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea, and from the Himalayas to the Vindhyas.
		It is perhaps this that won for Chandragupta Vikramaditya a permanent place in the hearts of the people of India.
		Fa-hein, the Chinese pilgrim who traveled over India for more than ten years (A.D. 400-411) during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya, has left an interesting record of the country and the life of the people inhabiting it.
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	PORTAL DA INDIA "A India Antiga"
		O Império Mauria foi fundado por Chandragupta Mauria, que derrotou os filhos do rei Nanda e expulsou os gregos do Punjab, tornando-se senhor de Mágada.
		Chandragupta foi sucedido por seu filho Bindusara (298-c.
		O Império Gupta alcançou seu apogeu sob Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, filho de Samudragupta, que expandiu mais ainda o império com a conquista do Reino Saka, de Ujjaim, e outros territórios.
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	Indian History - Reign of Kumaragupta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Chandragupta II (Vikramaditya) was succeeded by his son Kumaragupta.
		It is, however, certain that the superior ability and prowess of Skandagupta in a time of crisis led to his choice as ruler in preference to other possible claimants.
		Proud of his success against the barbarians, Skandagupta assumed the title of Vikramaditya.
	www.indhistory.com /kumaragupta.html (305 words)

	VIKRAMADITYA - LoveToKnow Article on VIKRAMADITYA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		As a matter of fact, all dates in this era down to the loth century never use the word Vikram, but that of Malava instead, that being the tribe that gives its name to Malwa, The name Vikramaditya simply means " sun of power," and was adopted by several Hindu kings, of whom Chand-ragupta II.
		(Chandragupta Vikramaditya), who ascended the throne of the Guptas about A.D. 375, approaches most nearly to the legend.
		VILAS, W. To properly cite this VIKRAMADITYA article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
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