Mention the similarities and differences between Samudra gupta and Harshavardhana
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SAMUDRA GUPTA:-
Samudragupta (r. c. 335/350-375 CE) was a ruler of the Gupta Empire of present-day India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he greatly expanded his dynasty's political power.
Samudragupta
Maharajadhiraja
Gupta Emperor
Reign
c. 335/350-375 CE
Predecessor
Chandragupta I, possibly Kacha
Successor
Chandragupta II, possibly Ramagupta
Spouse
Dattadevi
Issue
Chandragupta II, possibly Ramagupta
House
Gupta dynasty
Father
Chandragupta I
Mother
Kumaradevi
The Allahabad Pillar inscription, a prashasti (eulogy) composed by his courtier Harishena, credits him with extensive military conquests. It suggests that he defeated several kings of northern India, and annexed their territories to his empire. He also marched along the south-eastern coast of India, advancing as far as the Pallava kingdom. In addition, he subjugated several frontier kingdoms and tribal oligarchies. His empire extended from Ravi River in the west to the Brahmaputra River in the east, and from the Himalayan foothills in the north to central India in the south-west; several rulers along the south-eastern coast were his tributaries.
Samudragupta performed the Ashvamedha sacrifice to prove his imperial sovereignty, and according to his coins, remained undefeated. His gold coins and inscriptions suggest that he was an accomplished poet, and also played music. His expansionist policy was continued by his son Chandragupta II.
HARSHAVARDHNA :-
When the Imperial Gupta line ended in 538 A.D. with Kumara Gupta II, many provinces and feudatory chiefs declared their independence and the whole of North India was divided into a number of independent states.
Among them the important ones were the Later Guptas ruling over Malwa region, the Maukharis ruling over the territories corresponded to the present Uttar Pradesh, the Maitrakas who were ruling over Saurashtra and the Vardhanas ruling over Thaneshwar. It was Harshavardhana belonging to the Vardhana dynasty who was destined to be the last powerful Hindu ruler of north India.
According to Bana’s Harshacharita, Puspabhuti was the progenitor of the Vardhana dynasty who began his rule from Sthanisvara (Thaneshwar) which was situated on the banks of river Saraswathi. He was probably a contemporary of the early imperial Guptas. But Puspabhuti or his successor could not retain their newly won independence for long due to the advent of Samudragupta who brought all the kingdoms east of the river Chenab under the Gupta sway. Only after the decline of the Gupta’s did the kingdom of Vardhanas was revived. Harshavardhana’s grandfather Adityavardhana had married Mahasenaguptadevi who was the sister of Mahasenagupta who ruled Malwa from 555 to 580 A.D. Adityavardhana’s son was Prabhakaravardhana who was the first ruler of the dynasty to assume the imperial title ‘Paramabhattaraka Maharajadhiraja’. Prabhakaravardhana had given his daughter Rajyasri in marriage to the Maukhari king Grahavarman. Thus the Vardhanas had marriage alliance with both the Guptas of Malwa and Maukharis of Kanauj. But ironically there existed hereditary enmity between the Gupta rulers of Malwa and the Maukaris of Kanuaj which latter led to the extinguishment of both the kingdoms.
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