Purugupta

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Purugupta
9th Gupta Emperor
Reignc. 467 – c. 473 CE
PredecessorSkandagupta
SuccessorKumaragupta II
SpousePadmavatigupta and Chandradevi
DynastyGupta
FatherKumaragupta I
MotherAnantadevi
Gupta Empire
320 CE–550 CE
Chandragupta II horse typeHead of a Buddha statue, India, Mathura, Gupta period, 4th-5th century CE
Gupta (c. late 3rd century)
Ghatotkacha (c. late 3rd century - 319)
Chandragupta I (c. 319 – 335/350)
Kacha (early 4th century?)
Samudragupta (c. 335/350 – 375)
(Ramagupta) (late 4th century?)
Chandragupta II (380 – 413/415)
Kumaragupta I (415 – 455)
Skandagupta (455 - 467)
Purugupta (467 – 473)
Kumaragupta II (473 - 476)
Budhagupta (476 – 495)
Narasimhagupta (495 – ?)
(Bhanugupta) (circa 510)
Vainyagupta (circa 507)
Kumaragupta III (circa 530)
Vishnugupta (540 – 550)

Purugupta (Gupta script: Gupta allahabad pu.jpgGupta allahabad r.svgGupta allahabad gu.jpgGupta allahabad pt.jpg 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 Dr 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]

Nalanda clay seal of Vishnugupta. The seal states that Vishnugupta was son of Kumaragupta (III), and grandson of Purugupta.[6]

According to a Nalanda seal of Vishnugupta, Vishnugupta was son of Kumaragupta (III), and grandson of Purugupta.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Allen, John (1914). Catalogue of the coins of the Gupta dynasties. p. 134.
  2. ↑ Mahajan, V. D. (2007) [1960]. Ancient India. New Delhi: S. Chand. p. 512. ISBN 978-81-219-0887-0.
  3. ↑ Agarwal, Ashvini (1989). Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 220, 223–5. ISBN 81-208-0592-5.
  4. ↑ V D Mahajan (2019). Ancient India. S. Chand Publishing. p. 397. ISBN 9789352837243.
  5. ↑ Pankaj Tandon: "The Identity of Prakasaditya," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, October 2015, pp. 647-668 [1]
  6. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol.3 (inscriptions Of The Early Gupta Kings) p.364
  7. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol.3 (inscriptions Of The Early Gupta Kings) p.364
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Skandagupta 		Gupta Emperor
467–473 CE 		Succeeded by
Kumaragupta II
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