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	Gupta Empire - Indian History
		In spite of heroic efforts of SkandaGupta, Gupta empire did not survive long the shock it received from invasion of the Huns and internal uprising of Pushyamitras.
		Poetry in the Gupta age tended towards a few genres: religious and meditative poetry, lyric poetry, narrative histories (the most popular of the secular literatures), and drama.
		Examples of Gupta architecture are found in the Vaishnavite Tigawa temple at Jabalpur (in Madhya Pradesh state) built in 415 AD and another temple at Deogarhnear Jhansi built in 510 AD.
	www.gloriousindia.com /history/gupta_empire.html (1091 words)

	Sculpture in Gupta Empire
		The Gupta Empire was known for one of the largest political and military empires in the history of ancient India.
		Gupta style of art featuring a finished mastery in execution and a majestic serenity in expression was spread to other countries and mainly responsible for influencing Buddhist art in all over Asia.
		The cave temples of Elephanta and structural temples of Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu are enduring legacy Gupta rulers.
	arts.indianetzone.com /sculpture/1/gupta_empire.htm (795 words)

	Gupta - LoveToKnow 1911
		His empire rivalled that of Asoka, extending from the Hugli on the east to the Jumna and Chambal on the west, and from the foot of the Himalayas on the north to the Nerbudda on the south.
		The Gupta dynasty appears to have fostered a revival of Brahmanism at the expense of Buddhism, and to have given an impulse to art and literature.
		When Skandagupta died about 480, the Gupta empire came to an end, but the dynasty continued to rule in the eastern provinces for several generations.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gupta (477 words)

	Gupta Empire - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite the creation of the empire through war, the reign is remembered for its very influential style of Hindu art, literature, culture and science, especially during the reign of Chandra gupta II.
		The empire disintegrated under the attacks of Toramana and his successor, Mihirakula; the Hunas conquered the northeast, and several provinces of the empire, including Malwa, Gujarat, and Thanesar, broke away under the rule of local dynasties.
		These Guptas were ultimately ousted by the Vardhana king Harsha, who established an empire in the first half of the seventh century that, for a brief time, rivalled that of the Guptas in extent.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Gupta_empire (1409 words)

	Gupta Empire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gupta Empire was one of the largest political and military empires in ancient India.
		Despite the creation of the empire through war, the reign is remembered for its very influential style of Hindu art, literature, culture and science, especially during the reign of Chandra Gupta II.
		These Guptas were ultimately ousted by the Vardhana king Harsha, who established an empire in the first half of the seventh century that, for a brief time, rivalled that of the Guptas in extent.
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	GUPTA EMPIRE : Encyclopedia Entry
		The Gupta Empire was one of the largest political and military empires in ancient India.
		The time of the Gupta Empire was an Indian "Golden Age" in science, mathematics, astronomy, religion and philosophy.
		The Gupta Empire around 500 CE This period is regarded as the golden age of Indian culture.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Gupta_Empire (2886 words)

	History Gupta Empire - History Of Ancient, Medieval And Modern India.
		The Gupta Dynasty declined due to weak rulers and a series of invasions, but many of their cultural and intellectual achievements were saved and transmitted to other cultures and live on today.
		The Guptas seem to have relied heavily on infantry archers, and the bow was one of the dominant weapons of their army.
		The collapse of the Gupta Empire in the face of the Huna onslaught was due not directly to the inherent defects of the Gupta army, which after all had initially defeated these barbarians under Skandagupta.
	www.bharatadesam.com /history/gupta_empire.php (2058 words)

	Gupta Empire Summary
		Gupta territory extended in the west beyond the Hindu Kush range into today's Afghanistan and in the east to the western borders of today's Assam and Myanmar (Burma).
		The Gupta empire's excellence in metallurgy is evidenced by the outdoor iron pillar near Delhi.
		Despite the creation of the empire through war, the reign is remembered for its very influential style of Hindu art, literature, culture and science, especially during the reign of Chandra Gupta II.
	www.bookrags.com /Gupta_Empire (3505 words)

	webindia123.com-Indian History-Ancient-THE GUPTA PERIOD
		After succeeding to the throne of the empire he subdued the powers revolting against his authority in the Gangetic plains and brought their dominions to his kingdoms.
		Another area of outmost importance during the Gupta reign is the exchange of intellectual ideas which is attributed to the royal patronage and contacts with foreign people of both east and west.
		Contemporary with the rule of the Guptas their existed various other dynastic of which the Vakatakas of Bundelkhand of Berar was one.
	www.webindia123.com /history/ANCIENT/gupta_period.htm (1547 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Gupta Empire was one of the largest political and military empires in ancient India.Chandra Gupta was one of the greatest rulers of India.
		It was ruled by a member of the Gupta dynasty from around 320 to 600 CE and covered most of northern India and what is now eastern Pakistan and Bangladesh.
		The time of the Gupta Empire is referred to as Golden Age of India in science, mathematics, astronomy, religion and Indian philosophy.
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	Gupta Empire
		Gupta Empire was the empire of the Gupta clan of kings in Ancient India The origins of the Guptas are shrouded in obscurity.
		At the beginning of the 4th century the Guptas ruled a few small kingdoms in Magadha and around modern-day Uttar Pradesh.
		Despite the creation of the empire through war, the reign is remembered for the great growth in Hindu art, literature, culture and science, especially during the reign of Chandragupta II.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/g/gu/gupta_empire.html (628 words)

	Gupta Empire - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The origins of the Guptas are shrouded in obscurity.
		At the beginning of the 4th century the Guptas ruled a few small kingdoms in Magadha[?] and Uttar Pradesh.
		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.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/gu/Gupta_Empire.html (557 words)

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		Kumaragupta I (Mahendraditya) was ruler of the Gupta Empire from 415-455 CE.
		The Gupta empire was threatened by the invasions of Pushyamitras.
		Inscriptions prove that the Gupta sovereignty was acknowledged in the Jabbalpur region in the Narmada valley as late as AD 528, and in North Bengal till AD 543-544.
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	Maurya Empire information - Search.com
		The Mauryan Empire was perhaps the greatest empire to rule the Indian subcontinent until the arrival of the British.
		The assassination of Brhadrata and the rise of the Sunga empire led to a wave of persecution for Buddhists, and a resurgence of Hinduism.
		Whereas both empires recognized the ruler and his ministers as the basis of social order, the first great emperor of India recognized that he had a dharma (duty) to protect his people; his reign was not supported by brute force alone.
	www.search.com /reference/Maurya_Empire (3212 words)

	History Maratha Empire - History Of Ancient, Medieval And Modern India.
		The Maratha Empire (also spelled Mahratta and also called the Maratha Confederacy), of India, was founded by Chhatrapati Shivaji in 1674 when he carved out an independent Maratha zone around Pune from the Bijapur Sultanate.
		This was one great sign of the social mobility of the Maratha empire, which enabled their rapid expansion.
		The name of the empire today is preserved in the Indian state of Maharashtra, which was created in 1960 as a Marathi-speaking state.
	www.bharatadesam.com /history/maratha_empire.php (1377 words)

	Gupta Empire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gupta Empire in 400 CE (not including vassal states) The "Gupta Empire" was one of the largest political and military empires in ancient India.
		During the time of the Gupta Empire, Indians enjoyed a "Golden Age" in science, astronomy, religion and philosophy.
		Historians place the Gupta dynasty alongside with the Han dynasty and Rome as a model of a classical civilization.
	www.kiwipedia.com /gupta-dynasty-1.html (169 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gupta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gupta A Hindu dynasty established in 320 by Chandra Gupta I in Bihar.
		The Gupta empire eventually stretched across most of northern India, but began to disintegrate towards the end of the 5th century, only north Bengal being left by the end of the 6th century.
		Gupta paintings adorned the caves of Ajanta, its sculpture embellished the temples of Ellora, and its metaphysical speculations flowered in...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Gupta (853 words)

	Chandragupta: c. 321- c. 297 BC
		The Mauryan empire, which Chandragupta founded, owes its name to the house of the Mauryas, under whose rule the Indian subcontinent saw, for the first time in history, a considerable degree of political unity.
		The Mauryan empire was very strong and independent because it had some kind of political unity.
		In modern times the Maurya Empire is remembered as one of the golden ages of Indian history, a time when the country was united and independent.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/India/Chandragupta.html (417 words)

	culture
		The Gupta king Narasimha-gupta Baladitya was also overwhelmed by Yashodharman and was forced to pay tribute to Mihirakula, according to Xuan Zang; but Baladitya later defeated Mihirakula, saving the Gupta empire from the Huns.
		In the middle of the 6th century the Gupta Empire declined during the reigns of its last two emperors, Kumara-gupta III and Vishnu-gupta.
		Gupta sovereignty was recognized in Kalinga as late as 569.
	narasimhan.com /SK/Culture/culture_history/culture_hist_gupta2.htm (3680 words)

	Empire - Gurupedia
		Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, or the Russian Empire.
		Empires were also often strengthened by the introduction of a common religion, as was the case under Constantine I of the Roman Empire.
		Formerly part of the British Empire, when India gained its independence it was split along cultural lines producing the two-part country of Pakistan, which later split yet again resulting in the country of Bangladesh.
	www.gurupedia.com /e/em/empire.htm (758 words)

	Umang Gupta: Making Life Work
		Gupta was at IBM in the '70s; wrote the first business plan for Oracle in 1981; and he took his former company Gupta Corp. public in 1993.
		The Guptas second child, Raji, was born profoundly disabled and passed away at the age of 2.
		Gupta is quick to point out that he was not responsible for the Oracle business model, but he was asked to write Oracle's first formal business plan, which he did, and then stuck around for three years, finishing up as the president of the microcomputer products division.
	www.thestandard.com /article/0,1902,6819,00.html (1183 words)

	guptas
		Gupta Dynasty After the Kushans,was the most important dynasty.The information about Guptas is known from the archaeological remains,inscriptions and coins.Early in the beginning of the fourth century,a chief called Sri Gupta ruled a small kingdom in Magadha.
		The first famous king of the Gupta dynasty was Ghatokacha's son Chandragupta I. He married Kumaradevi, the daughter of the chief of the Lichhavis.This marriage was a turning point to Chandragupta I.He got Patliputra in dowry from the Lichhavis.
		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.
	members.tripod.com /masad/guptas.html (527 words)

	The Gupta Period
		In the fourth century, the Gupta Empire was established.
		He extended the empire westwards and brought the ports in Western India under Gupta control.During his reign, the Gupta empire reached the height of its power and was visited by Buddhist pilgrims from China.
		The Gupta Period was usually described as the "golden age of India" as it was a period of great military power and wealth and there was also great development in the arts and sciences.
	members.tripod.com /~BLye/index5.html (634 words)

	d. Indian Empires. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		KUSHAN EMPIRE was the strongest state in the era of instability.
		Gupta rulers gave support to Brahmans and Hinduism.
		The empire disintegrated in the face of invasions from central Asia, especially in 500–535
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Timeline of Indian history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Around the 5th century BCE, the northern Indian subcontinent was invaded by the Achaemenid Empire and the Greeks of Alexander's army.
		This had important repercussions for Indian Civilization, as the political systems of the Persians would have an influence on later Indian political philosophy, including the administration of the Mauryan dynasty, and a melting pot of Indian, Persian, Central Asian and Greek culture was created in the modern region of Afghanistan, producing a unique hybrid culture.
		The ports of southern India were involved in the Indian Ocean trade, chiefly involving spices, with the Roman Empire to the west and Southeast Asia to the east.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Timeline-of-Indian-history (1138 words)

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