Successors of the Satavahanas GAUTAMIPUTRA SRI YAJNA SATAKARNI, who probably ruled towards the close of the second century AD, was the last great king of his house. After his death, the Sata... Read more
The Pratihara Empire The Palas were one of the most long-lived dynasties of Indian history, but their supremacy in the Gangetic Doab was of short duration. The sceptre of Kanauj was not long... Read more
Bengal and the Pala Empire Both under Lalitaditya and Vinayaditya Kashmir had come into conflict with the arms of Gauda, which was the name applied to a people of Western and North-Western B... Read more
The Kanauj Empire after Harsha Harsha died either at the end of AD 646 or the beginning of 647. The removal of his strong personality let loose forces of disintegration and disorder in the M... Read more
Harsha At this juncture the statesmen of Kanauj, on the advice of their leading noble Bani (Bhandi), seem to have offered the crown to Harsha, the brother of Rajyavardhana and of Rajyasri, w... Read more
The Huns In spite of the heroic efforts of Skanda Gupta, the Gupta empire in its entirety did not long survive theskanda gupta coin shock it received from the uprising of the Pushyamitras an... Read more
Chandra Gupta II Vikramaditya Samudra Gupta was succeeded, according to contemporary epigraphs, by his son Chandra Gupta II surnamed Vikramaditya who ruled from C. AD 380 to 413. Some writer... Read more
The Rise of the Gupta Power The Scythian conquerors of India had received their first great check in the Deccan. Gautamiputra Satakarni of the Satavahana dynasty had extirpated the Kshaharat... Read more
Literary Activity It is difficult to assign any extant Indian work definitely to the Maurya age. Three works, the Kautiliya Arthasastra, the Kalpasutra of Bhadrabahu and the Buddhist Katha v... Read more
Medium of Exchange Foreign commerce brought a large quantity of specie to India, and we have already referred to Pliny’s complaint about the drainage of Roman coins to this country. In... Read more
