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'''''Pax Gupta''''' or '''''Pax Guptana''''' ([[Latin]] for "Gupta Peace", modelled after ''[[Pax Romana]]'') is a historiographical term sometimes used to describe the social and economic peace in the regions under the [[Gupta Empire]] between 4th and 5th centuries AD, notably in the [[Indus Valley]] and [[Northern India]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sinha |first=Bindeshwari Prasad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3KDaZY85wYC&pg=PA2 |title=Dynastic History of Magadha, Cir. 450-1200 A.D. |date=1977 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=2 |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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== Background ==<br />
This period ushered an unprecedented growth and development of scientific knowledge in the [[Indian subcontinent]], particularly in the fields of [[Gupta art|art]], [[mathematics]] and [[astrology]] and is called the [[golden age of India]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goyal |first=Shankar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSVuAAAAMAAJ&q=pax+guptana |title=Problems of Ancient Indian History: New Perspectives and Perceptions |date=2001 |publisher=Book Enclave |isbn=978-81-87036-66-1 |language=en}}</ref> Many Hindu [[Hindu epics|epics]] and [[Hindu literature|literary]] sources, such as the [[Mahabharata]] and [[Ramayana]], were canonised during this period.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/249590/Gupta-dynasty Gupta dynasty (Indian dynasty)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330100325/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/249590/Gupta-dynasty |date=30 March 2010 }}. Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 November 2011.</ref> The Gupta period produced the scholars [[Kalidasa]],<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/indiahistory00keay/page/151 |title=India: A history |last=Keay |first=John |publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-87113-800-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/indiahistory00keay/page/151 151–52] |quote=Kalidasa wrote ... with an excellence which, by unanimous consent, justifies the inevitable comparisons with Shakespeare ... When and where Kalidasa lived remains a mystery. He acknowledges no links with the Guptas; he may not even have coincided with them ... but the poet's vivid awareness of the terrain of the entire subcontinent argues strongly for a Guptan provenance. |author-link=John Keay }}</ref> [[Aryabhata]], [[Varahamihira]], and [[Vatsyayana]] who made great advancements in many academic fields.{{sfn|Vidya Dhar Mahajan|1990|p=540}}<ref name="Keay">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/indiahistory00keay/page/132 |title=India: A history |last=Keay |first=John |publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-87113-800-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/indiahistory00keay/page/132 132] |quote=The great era of all that is deemed classical in Indian literature, art and science was now dawning. It was this crescendo of creativity and scholarship, as much as ... political achievements of the Guptas, which would make their age so golden. |author-link=John Keay }}</ref> The game of [[chess]] developed during this period.<ref>{{cite book<br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[Pax Kushana]]'', a period of relative peace in the preceding [[Kushan Empire]]<br />
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* {{cite book |author=Vidya Dhar Mahajan |author-link=Vidya Dhar Mahajan |year=1990 |title=A History of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJ2UAAAACAAJ |publisher=State Mutual Book & Periodical Service |isbn=978-0-7855-1191-5 |access-date=29 August 2018 |archive-date=10 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110060325/https://books.google.com/books?id=CJ2UAAAACAAJ |url-status=live }}<br />
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