The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c16.41

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c16.41

In A.D. 455, when Europe was being desolated by wild hordes of Asiatic nomads, Vikramâditya's grandson, Skandagupta, once more upheld the banner of Aryan civilisation against the Turanian invader, and stayed the savage descent of the White Huns into the Indus valley, after they had overrun the Kushan dominions. The struggle continued at intervals until about 495. Then the Gupta power was broken for a time by the Hun leader, Torâmana, who became the ruler of Mâlwâ in Central India, apparently without destroying the political institutions which he found there, as he assumed the Indo-Aryan title of "King of Kings."

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