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The Date of the End of the Reign of Kumära Gupta I and the Succession After His Death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A.L. Basham
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The Girnar Inscription of Skanda Gupta,1 read in conjunction with the Bhitari Inscription of the same king,2 shows that Skanda Gupta came to the throne while the Gupta Empire was in great difficulties as a result of the invasion of the Hunas and the mysterious Pusyamitras. On pacifying the country Skanda gave much thought to the choice of governors for the outlying provinces, and decided to appoint one Parnadatta as governor of Surastra.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1955 , pp. 366 - 369
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1955

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References

page 366 note 1 Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum (henceforth C.I.I.), iii, no. 14, pp. 56 if.

page 366 note 2 ibid., no. 13, p. 52 ff

page 367 note 1 ibid., p. 60, line 15. Fleet reads atha, which, from the facsimile, may be accounted for by a small scratch in the stone.

page 367 note 2 See p. 403.

page 367 note 3 The Decline of the Kingdom of Magadha (henceforth DKM), Patna, 1954, p. 45.

page 367 note 4 CII, iii, p. 54, lines 12–13.

page 367 note 5 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1894, part I, p. 175.

page 368 note 1 Coins of Medieval India, London, 1894, p. 16.

page 368 note 2 DKM, p. 47.

page 368 note 3 J. Allan, Coins of the Gupta Dynasties … in the British Museum, London, 1914, p. cxxxi f.

page 368 note 4 DKM, pp. 23 ff.

page 368 note 5 Memoir of the Archeological Survey of India, no. 66, 1942, pp. 64 ff.

page 368 note 6 CII, in, p. 54, line 15.

page 369 note 1 DKM, pp. 32–3.

page 369 note 2 CII, iii, p. 59, line 5.