Purugupta | |
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9th Gupta Emperor | |
Reign | c. 467 – c. 473 CE |
Predecessor | Skandagupta |
Successor | Kumaragupta II |
Dynasty | Gupta |
Father | Kumaragupta I |
Mother | Anantadevi |
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Purugupta (
Gupta script:
Pu-ra-gu-pta,
[1]
Sanskrit: पुरुगुप्त) (reigned 467–473 CE) was an emperor of the
Gupta dynasty in northern
India. Purugupta was a son of the Gupta emperor
Kumaragupta I by his queen Anantadevi. He succeeded his half-brother
Skandagupta.
[2] No inscription of Purugupta has been found so far. He is known from the Bhitari silver-copper seal of his grandson
Kumaragupta III and Nalanda clay sealings of his sons
Narasimhagupta and
Budhagupta and his grandson
Kumaragupta III. From the Saranath Buddha image inscription, it is concluded that he was succeeded by
Kumaragupta II.
[3] According to Hornell and Raychaudhary, Prakashaditya was another title of Purugupta,
[4] although this has now been disproven by Pankaj Tandon, who has definitively shown that Prakashaditya was the
Hun king
Toramana.
[5]
According to a Nalanda seal of Vishnugupta, Vishnugupta was son of Kumaragupta (III), and grandson of Purugupta. [7]
Purugupta | |
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9th Gupta Emperor | |
Reign | c. 467 – c. 473 CE |
Predecessor | Skandagupta |
Successor | Kumaragupta II |
Dynasty | Gupta |
Father | Kumaragupta I |
Mother | Anantadevi |
Gupta Empire 320 CE–550 CE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Purugupta (
Gupta script:
Pu-ra-gu-pta,
[1]
Sanskrit: पुरुगुप्त) (reigned 467–473 CE) was an emperor of the
Gupta dynasty in northern
India. Purugupta was a son of the Gupta emperor
Kumaragupta I by his queen Anantadevi. He succeeded his half-brother
Skandagupta.
[2] No inscription of Purugupta has been found so far. He is known from the Bhitari silver-copper seal of his grandson
Kumaragupta III and Nalanda clay sealings of his sons
Narasimhagupta and
Budhagupta and his grandson
Kumaragupta III. From the Saranath Buddha image inscription, it is concluded that he was succeeded by
Kumaragupta II.
[3] According to Hornell and Raychaudhary, Prakashaditya was another title of Purugupta,
[4] although this has now been disproven by Pankaj Tandon, who has definitively shown that Prakashaditya was the
Hun king
Toramana.
[5]
According to a Nalanda seal of Vishnugupta, Vishnugupta was son of Kumaragupta (III), and grandson of Purugupta. [7]