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
Games and Recreations Inscriptions of the period refer frequently to utsava and samaja, festivities and merry gatherings. Kings considered it a duty to give practical demonstration of their... Read more
Social Conditions Varna (caste) and asrama (period or stages of religious discipline), the two characteristic institutions of the Hindu social polity, reached a definite stage in the Maurya... Read more
The cost of civil and military administration even at the centre must have been enormous. The chief sources of revenue from villages mentioned in an inscription of Asoka are the bhaga and th... Read more
Forms of Government IN the period under review we have for the first time in the history of this country great empires extending from the Hindukush to the valleys of the Godavari and the Kri... Read more
Successors of Kanishka I Kanishka’s rule lasted for twenty-three years. His immediate successor was Vasishka, who had a short reign and was succeeded by Huvishka. The empire of Huvishk... Read more
