Gupta Age - Some High Frequency Questions Part I

• Guptas belonged to Dharana gotra
• Pushyavarman, a Kamprupa ruler placed as the ruler of North eastern part of the empire
• The poetic work"Krishna Charitam" is supposed to have been written by Samudragupta and for his poetic brilliance he got the title"Kaviraja"
• Some of the famous inscriptions of Kumaragupta were Bilsad, Damodarpur,Karmandaka ,Mandasore
• The Eran insciption(510 AD)is the first reference to Sati in India
• Yashodharman of Malwa defeated Mihirkula who then retreated to Kashmir and there he embraced Shaivism
• Apart from Chandragupta II Skandagupta also took the title Vikramaditya
• Samudragupta and Skandagupta both performed ashwamedha yajna
• Rulers after Skandagupta Purugupta-Buddhagupta-Vanyagupta-Bhanugupta-Narasimhagupta-KumaraguptaII-Vishnugupta
• Aprahata-Forest land
• Nivi Dharma-Land endowment in perpetuity
• Talavataka was village accountant
• According to Visakhadutta Vasana the saka ruler killed Ramagupta
• Allhabad pillar inscription is the first epigraphic evidence of zero
• The term Bhukti first apeared in the Bhojdeva inscription of Gwalior
• Tadaga was a reservoir
• Audrangika collected the King's share in kind
• Nivartana, Dronavapa, Kulavapa were all units of measurement
• Total 42 inscriptions of this age are found with maximum belonging to Kumaragupta
• The great boar image was installed at the gate of Udaygiri
• Kumaragupta is said to have embraced Buddhism towards the end of his reign
• Samudragupta sent an embassy to China in 361 AD and Skandagupta sent an embassy to China
• Mahapratihara was the palace guard
• Gadhiya was a series of coins during this period
• Fields owned by cultivators themselves were known as Kutumba Kshetra
• Dandin wrote Dasakumaracharita
• Bhattin wrote Ravanabadha
• According to T'sing Srigupta built a temple for the chinese pilgrims at Mrigashikhavahana
• Toramana was converted to jainism
• Earliest evidence of temple prostitution in India, Ramgarh inscription
• Narada smriti talks about 15 kinds of slaves
• Drangik-Official for collection of custom duties
• Yajnavalka Smriti was the official lawbook of the Guptas
• Kulika-Guild of artisans