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Gupta

22 articles in the archive discuss Gupta, from The Indian Historical Quarterly, Sambodhi (1927–1983). Open any article for its summary, citation and original PDF.

22 articles

Articles discussing Gupta

  1. The Kusana Influence on the 'Apratigha' Coins

    Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1959

    “The obverse of the ‘Apratigha’ coins of Kumaragupta 1 has long remained a mystery ૬૦ scholars.”
  2. Allahabad Inscription of Samudragupta is not posthumous

    B. Ch. Chhabra · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1948

    “There is thus absolutely no doubt that the inscription is one of Samudragupta’s own time, not posehumous.”
  3. A Note on the Mathura Inscription of Candra Gupta II

    Dineshchandra Sircar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1942

    “The Mathuri inscription of Candra Gupta दी, dated 10 the Gupta year, 61, 135 been published 10 फट Epigraphia Indica' by Dr. D. રિ. Bhandarkar.”
  4. Discovery of a New Historical Stone Horse

    Jagannath Das Ratnakar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1927

  5. The Antiquities of Biharsarif

    Adris Banerji · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1951

    “The establishment of the empire by the Guptas, the 135 Imperial dynasty of ancienc Magadha, made Biharsarif a [000 of Rajagrba visaya, seals of which have been found at Nalanda.”
  6. Who was the Gupta contemporary of the Kadamba King Kakusthavarman?

    N. Lakshminarayan Rao · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1933

  7. L-tsing’s India

    V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1952

    “The 0056 pilgrim whose writings are valuable to students of Gupta history 15 Fahien, who visited the empire of Candragupta Il Vikramadicya.”
  8. Some Royal Poets of the Vakataka Age

    V. V. Mirashi · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1945

    “This was no doubt mainly dus (૦ the liberal patronage which the Gupta kings extended to Sanskrit authors at their court.”
  9. Sri-Jivadharapra of the Tipperah Copper-plate Grant of Lokanatha

    Dasharatha Sharma · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1935

    “8ri-Jivadh3rana may therefore 120 equated with Jivagupta or Jivitagupta II, the last Gupta ruler of Bengal.”
  10. Select Contents of Oriental Journals

    The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1938

  11. On the Text of a Verse in the Bhitari Stone Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta

    Satyavrat Verma · Sambodhi, 1983

    “The coiitroveisy sparked off by Verse Seven of The Bhitari Stone Pillai Inscription of the Gupta monarch, Skandagupta, on restoration of possibly the coircct text of its last quarter, has lately assumed interesting, though somewhat dogmatic overtones, with the jumping of some of the stalwarts into the fiuy.”
  12. The Development of Buddhist Art in South India

    Deva Prasad Ghosh · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1927

  13. Vasundhara, the Daughter of Vikrama

    D. B. Diskalkar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1944

  14. A New Gupta Sculpture

    Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1933

    “These characteristics together with itz general features point out that it helongs to the Gupta period.’”
  15. Fresh Light on the Deogarh Relief of Nara‑Narayana

    Thillaisthanam Natarajan Ramachandran · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1951

    “An attempt 15 made in this paper to throw further light on this relief, which 15 one of classical importance, presenting as it does all the charac- teristics of the style of sculpture of फीट Gupta period.”
  16. Architectural Affiliations of Early Saurashtra Temples

    K. V. Soundara Rajan · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1961

    “In essence, therefore, we have to view the whole gamut of variations that the carly Saurashtra temples displayed in the southern coastal areas as an essentially experimental provincial milean, working within the influences inherited from the Gupta and Chalukyan nuclei of the main land, and have no more bias with the distant and a typical gable roof styles of north-western India.”
  17. Review: Select Inscriptions Bearing on Indian History and Civilization, Volume I (600 B.C.–600 A.D.)

    Mano Mohan Ghosh · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1942

    “Book II contains post-Maurya but pre-Gupta records. There are inscriptions of dynasties ruling 'n western, central and western India, of Indo-Greeks, Indo-Parthians, Kushanas includ- ing Sakas of western India, inscriptions of Satavahanas, Kharavela and inscriptions from Andhradefa and from regions outside India such 35 Cc'ylon and Central Asia.”
  18. Bangalay Bauddha-Dharma review

    Nalinaksha Dutt · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1948

    “By far the best and the longest chapters are the second and the third, in which he deals with the career of the religion in Bengal during the Gupta and the Pala periods.”
  19. Is the Devi-bhagavata the Source of the Deogarh Relief of Nara-Narayana?

    Rajendra Chandra Hazra · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1953

    “the scenes of the penance of the sages Nara and Narayana in the eastern niche of the Gupta temple of Deogarh in the Jhanst district of U.P. are based on the story of Nara-Nirayana as contained in the Devi-bbagavata (Benares edition) 1૪. 5-10 (cspecially chap. 6)”
  20. Miscellany: The Newly-Discovered Gunaighar Grant

    Mano Mohan Ghosh · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1930

  21. The Gudimallam Lingam

    Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1931

  22. Two Saura Images from the District of 24-Parganas

    Kalidas Datta · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1933