Clase 8 Gupta Empire

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Maurya (320 135 b. C)y Indogreeks (175 98 b. C.)

y Sungas (185 73 b. C)

y Parthians (123 b. C. 65 a. D)

y Kushan Kings (I Century a. D 320 a. D.)


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y In the 4th Century the Guptas, until then an irrelevantDynasty, seized the power.

y Having Magadha as their core, Chandragupta I(Different to Chandragupta) expanded his territorial

influence first by means of marriage.y It kept on expanding by means of war in the hands of

Samudragupta.


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y Chandragupta II inherited the throne. Under hisguidance the Gupta Empire reaches his highest peakculturally speaking.

y Kept on expanding the Empire by both means:marriage (forced her daughter Prabhavatigupta to

marry the Vakataka king Rudrasen II) and war(defeated the remaining Satraps and took over theirreigns).

y What used to be the most important Satrapy became

the new Capitol City.


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His successor ( 415 b. C) was his son Kumaragupta I,who as the usage was, performed the ritualisticAshvamedha Yanja (sacrifice of the Horse.)

y The Gupta Empire faced a crisis during his time

because of the invasions of the Huns.y The invaders were defeated by Skandragupta, son of

Kumara (484 a. D). He is considered the last greatGupta Emperor.

y The Huns came back decades later and were decisivelydefeated in the year 527 a. D. by Yasodharman


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They came from Iran.y There are four different groups of them: Kidarites

(They penetrated during the 4th C. till Gandara andKashmir), Alcons (Got till Taxila in 460 a.D.), the

Nspks (sic) got till Ghazna and Kabul by mid 5th

C.,Hephthalites who got till Jorasan.

y After been defeated they all retrieved to Afghanistan.


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It is known as the Golden era of ancient India thanksto the culture development they promoted.

This is, nevertheless, sort of vague, because someclaim much of the cultural work found and attributedto them was made before or after their times.

During their epoch poetry flourished as the mostimportant art.

The Kamasutra by Vatsayana (The Machiavelli of Love)was written during their times.

The Code of Man was compiled in the same epoch. Best representative of the Gupta Poetry: Kalidasa (473

a.D.).


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Kalidasa perfected the written Sanskrit and had astrong connection to nature and religion (Sivaitic) ashis core.

Famous for his knowledge of human psychology which

can be found in his complicated plots. He is so known that even Goethe praised some of his

dramas, mainly the Abhijanasakuntala (Therecognition of Sakuntala).


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If I will to comprehend the flowers of the early yearand the fruits of the late one under a name,

y If I want to comprehend that which fascinates andtakes away, that which satisfies and feeds under one

name,y If I want to comprehend the sky, the earth under one

name,

y I name you, Sakontala, and everything is said.

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