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Skandagupta
Skandagupta ((サンスクリット:स्कन्दगुप्त)) (died 467) was a Gupta Emperor of northern India. He is generally considered the last of the great Gupta Emperors.
==Rule==
Skandagupta's antecedents remain unclear. Later official genealogies omit his name, and even the inscriptions of his own age omit the name of his mother. Another contemporary record notes that the "goddess of sovereignty, of her own accord, selected him as her husband, having in succession discarded all other princes." This has been interpreted as suggesting that Skandragupta was the son of a junior wife.〔Majumdar, RC (1954), ''Chapter III: The expansion and consolidation of the Empire'', in RC Maumdar, AD Pusalker & AK Majumdar (eds.) The History and Culture of the Indian People: (3 ) The Classical Age. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (1962), pp. 17-28.〕 It may even be that he was simply a successful general who promoted himself into the ruling Gupta clan.
He certainly faced some of the greatest challenges in the annals of the empire having to contend with the Pushyamitras and the Hunas (a name by which the "White Huns" were known in India). He defeated the ''Pushyamitras'', a tribe who were settled in central India but then rebelled. He was also faced with invading Indo-Hephthalites or ''Hunas'', from the northwest. Skandagupta had warred against the Huns during the reign of his father, and was celebrated throughout the empire as a great warrior. He crushed the Huna invasion in 455, and managed to keep them at bay; however, the expense of the wars drained the empire's resources and contributed to its decline. In particular, coinage issued under SkandaGupta is seriously debased.〔Majumdar, RC (1954), ''Chapter III: The expansion and consolidation of the Empire'', in RC Maumdar, AD Pusalker & AK Majumdar (eds.) The History and Culture of the Indian People: (3 ) The Classical Age. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (1962), pp. 17-28.〕
Skandagupta died in 467 and was succeeded by his half-brother Purugupta (467–473 CE), Kumaragupta II (473–476 CE), Budhagupta (476–495? CE) and Narasimhagupta, whose kingdom in the plains of Northern India was continuously attacked by the Hunas. Skandagupta's name appear in the Javanese text ''Tantrikamandaka'', and Chinese writer, Wang-hiuen-tse refers that an ambassador was sent to his court by King Meghvarma of Sri Lanka, who had asked his permission to build a Buddhist monastery at Bodh Gaya for the monks traveling from Sri Lanka.
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