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	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)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Sculpture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Of the Gupta sculptures in Bengal proper the earliest example seems to be the Visnu from Machmoil Bagmara (fig 2) in the district of Rajshahi carved in gray sandstone.
		Paharpur sculptures The Gupta sculptures of Bengal are mostly icons and their forms were determined by the characteristics of the gods as prescribed by the priests of Madhyadesha or central India.
		The Gupta classical art is not only significant for finalising the ideated human forms, and establishing the features of male and female beauties, but also for endowing such physical forms with sentiments and lively gestures.
	banglapedia.org /HT/S_0163.HTM (7741 words)

	Search Results for "Gupta"
		Gupta paintings adorned the caves of Ajanta, its sculpture embellished the temples of Ellora, and...
		Except that he was retained by the Gupta court, no facts concerning...
		In the late Vedic period he was called Prajapati, the primeval man whose sacrifice permitted the original...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Gupta (260 words)

	The Age of the Guptas and After
		During this period, the most powerful kingdoms were not in the north, but in the Deccan to the south, particularly in the west.
		This period is regarded as the golden age of Indian culture.
		In many ways, the period during and following the Gupta dynasty was the period of "Greater India," a period of cultural activity in India and surrounding countries building off of the base of Indian culture.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCINDIA/GUPTA.HTM (815 words)

	EmpiresMiddle
		Gupta was an empire in northern and parts of central and western India.
		The Gupta era was once regarded as India's Classical period, but new archaeological evidence has given the earlier Mauryan empire that designation.
		Nevertheless, the Gupta period is noted for the flourishing of Sanskrit literature (see Kalidasa), its sophisticated metal coins, its advanced mathematics (which made use of decimal notation and the numeral zero and at that time was more advanced than anywhere else), and its astronomical advances.
	www.sq.4mg.com /EmpiresMiddle.htm (1112 words)

	webindia123.com-Indian History-Ancient-THE GUPTA PERIOD
		The Gupta administration at this period was mild.
		The Gupta period in Indian history is termed as the Golden Age of India.
		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.
	www.webindia123.com /history/ANCIENT/gupta_period.htm (1557 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: The Gupta Dynasty
		The Gupta dynasty ruled India (what was India then, the north of the Vindhyas), between fourth and sixth centuries of the Christian era.
		Though not as vast as Mauryan empire, Gupta rule has left a deep and wide cultural impact not only in the subcontinent but on the adjacent Asian countries as well.
		Poets Kalidasa, Dandi, Visakhadatta, Shudraka, and Bharavi -- all belong to this period.
	www.kamat.com /kalranga/itihas/guptas.htm (347 words)

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		Gupta style of art which was marked by a finished mastery in execution and a majestic serenity in expression was spread to other countries and greatly influenced Buddhist art all over Asia.
		Administration structure during the Gupta period was exceptionally good in spite of large empire.
		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.med.unc.edu /~nupam/Sgupta1.html (3148 words)

	Visvarupa Book - The Classical Phase Development in the Gupta Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The existence of a classical period in Indian art and culture is generally held to have coincided with, or to have been created by, the Gupta dynasty, whose rule lasted from A.D. 320 to about the mid-sixth century.
		As Banerjea6 suggests, Brahm¡, in the brahmanical religion of this and later periods, had become a subsidiary figure in the cults of the two major gods, áiva and ViÀ¸u; his presence was necessary, but adaptable to the symbolical necessities of cults other than his own, which was almost eclipsed by the rise of other deities.
		The one multiheaded sculpture of Skanda which as far as I know survives from the Gupta period9 is a deep relief upon the upper part of the pilaster of a fragmentary gateway lintel from Paw¡ya (Padm¡vati) in Madhya Pradesh.
	www.ignca.nic.in /visvb014.htm (2709 words)

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		In the report, the debris of the structure underneath the floor and walls of the Babri Masjid was identified as a temple built in the 12th century A.D. The temple structure existed until early 16th century.
		It is to this last period that the graves containing skeletons in the north and the south of the complex belong.
		These levels of Period VII are also associated with medieval (Islamic) glazed ware and glazed tiles, which came to be produced on a large scale only with the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20030926005113200.htm&date=fl2019/&prd=fline& (1755 words)

	guptaindia.html
		Religiously and culturally, the centuries between the Mauryans and the Guptas saw the consolidation of Indian culture, and the diffusion of Buddhist religion throughout Asia.
		The Gupta period saw gradual waning of Buddhist influence in India itself in the face of a general revival of Hindu beliefs.
		The Gupta period saw a growth in devotional cults to deities, primarily Vishnu and Shiva.
	www.loyno.edu /~seduffy/guptaindia.html (2215 words)

	Gupta Period [Early Fourth to Mid-Eighth Centuary A.D.] - Ancient Indian Costume,Discover Indians,Fa-hein, a Chinese ...
		The Gupta empire was founded in northern India at the beginning of the fourth century AD after a long period of chaos which ensued when the Kushan empire ended in the middle of the third century.
		Known as the ‘Golden Age’ and the ‘Classical Period’, in the age of the Guptas a degree of balance and harmony in all the arts and an efficient system of administration was achieved.
		The main difference in the Gupta period, as distinct from the previous periods, is that the kachcha style became less popular with women, being replaced gradually by the more feminine lehnga or lungi was we call it today, although the queen and other ladies of the royal family remained conservative.
	www.4to40.com /discoverindia/index.asp?article=discoverindia_guptas (7094 words)

	History - The Gupta Age
		The greatest empire in the fourth century AD was the Gupta empire, which ushered in the golden age of Indian history.
		The most outstanding literary figure of the Gupta period was Kalidasa whose choice of words and imagery brought Sanskrit drama to new heights.
		After the decline of the Gupta empire, north India broke into a number of separate Hindu kingdoms and was not really unified again until the coming of the Muslims.
	www.tourindia.com /history/gupta.htm (272 words)

	Hinduism 2 - Crystalinks
		By the time of the early Gupta empire the new theism had been harmonized with the old Vedic religion, and two of the main branches of Hinduism were fully recognized.
		Nearly all surviving Gupta temples are comparatively small; they consist of a small cella (central chamber), constructed of thick and solid masonry, with a veranda either at the entrance or on all sides of the building.
		The earliest Gupta temples, such as the Buddhist temples at Sanchi, have flat roofs; however, the sikhara (spire), typical of the north Indian temple, was developed in this period and with time steadily was made taller.
	www.crystalinks.com /hindu2a.html (4523 words)

	The Gupta Style of the Buddha & its Influence in Asia - Victoria and Albert Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Gupta period (4th to 6th century) is noted as a time during which the quintessential Buddha image was created, becoming an iconic form which was disseminated and copied throughout the Asian Buddhist world.
		Though the Indian Gupta style is confined historically to the 4th to late 6th centuries, the immediate north Indian legacy of the style, sometimes referred to as the Post-Gupta style, extends into the 7th and 8th centuries, the time-frame to which this sculpture belongs.
		The Gupta style, and its related Buddha images, were to be highly influential for the many regional schools of sculpture that arose in later periods all over the Indian subcontinent.
	www.vam.ac.uk /collections/asia/radiant_buddha/style (598 words)

	Gupta Sculpture (Indian Sculpture of the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries A.D.)
		This is the first comprehensive survey of the sculpture of the Gupta period in India (4th, 5th and 6th centuries).
		The Gupta age is the classical period of Indian civilization, still regarded as a golden age, when many of the elements of Indian civilization which have endured to this day assumed their present form.
		While Gupta is remarkably homogeneous in style, the Gupta dominion stretched across the whole of north India, and separate sections are devoted to the various regions.
	www.buddhart.com /book/details/IAB93 (387 words)

	gupta.html
		A chief called Sri Gupta ruled a small kingdom in Magadh, and was succeeded by his son Ghatokacha.
		Gupta era coins show the King wearing Kushan/Persian dress in the early years, with a helmet as headgear.
		Gupta craftsmen used techniques such as beaten work, embossing, filigree and twisted wire work, granulation etc. Here on the right is a King with a really splendid set of jewels on his head.
	www.designerhistory.com /historyofashion/gupta.html (2071 words)

	Tradtional India
		The Gupta style of administration was less centralized than the Mauryan and was carried out through provincial, district, subdivisional, and village offficials rather than by centrally appointed personnel.
		The classical patterns of civilization realized under the Guptas were sustained by their successors in the middle Ganges Valley and in the kingdoms that emerged from the breakup of the Gupta Empire.
		The age of the imperial Guptas in northern India (fourth to seventh centuries A.D.) is regarded as the classical age of Hindu civilization.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/India2.html (4587 words)

	Asian Art and Architecture: Art & Design 382/582 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Gupta empire was not a conqueror of the Kushan or Andhra empires, but their successor in north India.
		It is the period esteemed to have the greatest, and indeed the model Sanskrit literature and culture.
		The creation of the sites second phase is owed largely to the Vakataka dynasty, whose last sovereign was married to a Gupta princess and extended his Deccan rule north at the end of the Gupta period.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~tart/arth382/lecture11.html (5355 words)

	Art Education-Gupta
		The renowned Gupta sculptural style evolved from it's earlier Kushan Mathura ancestors, but was refined at Sarnath, where an abundance of Buddhist sculptures were discovered.
		However in the Gupta period Buddhism began to be overshadowed by Hinduism resulting in a profusion of Hindu sculpture.
		The dramatic rock-cut shrine at Udayagiri, near Bhopal dated 402 AD (the reign of Chandra Gupta II) combining Kushan tradition with innovation, is the earliest example of Gupta Hindu art.
	www.indianartcircle.com /arteducation/page_7_gupta.shtml (231 words)

	Gupta Dynasty - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gupta Dynasty, Indian dynasty ruling from ad 320 to c.
		540, a period traditionally regarded as a golden age of classical culture in India.
		Since the Gupta period (ad 320 to 550; see Gupta Dynasty) it has...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Gupta_Dynasty.html (120 words)

	Summary of the Report submitted by the ASI on Ayodhya excavations
		In the last phase of the period VII glazed ware sherds make their appearance and continue in the succeeding levels of the next periods where they are accompanied by glazed this which were probably used in the original construction of the disputed structure.
		Animal bones have been recovered from various levels of different periods, but skeletal remains noticed at the trenches in northern and southern areas belong to the Period IX as the grave pits have been found out into the deposition coeval with the late disputed structures and are sealed by the top deposit.
		It is worthwhile to observe that the various structures exposed right from the Sunga to Gupta period do not speak either about their nature or functional utility as no evidence has come to approbate them.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0803/231.html (1268 words)

	Kashmiri woman filmmaker denied rights on her film (GreaterKashmir.com) 22/9/2006 : 2:14:01 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was during this period that Gupta was projecting himself as the co-director of the film in the filmmaking community.”
		However, Gupta informed Shabnam (visiting her home in Kashmir) on phone on some date in the first fortnight of August that Sushil Kumar had taken away the master tapes of the film she had shot.
		It was also agreed that Mr Gupta would give me a DVD copy of the film on the next day of the meeting but he neither paid me a single penny nor gave the DVD copy of film.
	www.greaterkashmir.com /full_story.asp?Date=12_2_2006&ItemID=23&cat=1 (1108 words)

	CHANDRA GUPTA II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Guptas, who had been vassals of the Kushanas emerged by 328 in the Ganges valley.
		During much of the Gupta period warfare and violence was tamed by chivalric conventions and religious tolerance, and Indian civilization experienced its golden age.
		Chandra Gupta II was the third, and most significant of the Gupta kings (c.380--c.415.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons3_n2/chandragupta.html (161 words)

	MODULE XV
		The Gupta dynasty faltered due to the onslaught of the Huna invasions (Turko-Mongols from Central Asia) in the North-West region beginning in the middle of the fifth century (ca., 454) and recurring again towards the close of the century (ca., 495).
		Apart from the Gupta consolidation and Harsha's brief consolidation of much of North India, the remainder of this Indic period (ca., 700 - l200 of the Common Era and beyond) marks primarily the emergence of a great variety of regional polities and cultures.
		What is emerging in the period, in other words, is not simply a classical "Hindu" philosophizing together with its mendicant or monastic base, but, rather, a much broader "Indic" philosophizing that encompasses Hindu, Buddhist and Jain components along with a variety of monastic institutional environments.
	www.indiana.edu /~isp/cd_rom/mod_12/mod_12_x.htm (6253 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gupta period (4th to 7th C.A.D.) is said to be the golden period of ancient Indian Culture.
		After the Gupta period, Kakkula, Vatsaraja, and Mahendrapala were the Jaina kings in the Pratihara dynasty.
		However, all the symbols could not be decided in the early Gupta period.
	www.jaintirths.com /general/architecture.htm (1806 words)

	culture
		Gupta homes: In the villages and towns, homes were mostly one room huts made of wood or bamboo, with thatched roofs.
		Gupta villages: Streets between the homes were narrow and twisted.
		In the Gupta Empire, wheat was the main crop, and they kept cows for milk.
	narasimhan.com /SK/Culture/culture_history/image/culture_hist_dailylife_ancient.htm (861 words)

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