The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.107

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| 266 | in Loyang where he works at translations till A.D. 313 or 317. He was the first to translate several sūtras of the Vaipulya class. He died in his seventy-eighth year.—BN. 391. |
| 276 | Ś. 198-203. Viśvasimha, Western Kshatrapa, son of Rudrasena II. |
| 278 | Ś. 200-214. Bhartṛidāman, Western Kshatrapa, son of Rudrasena II. |
| 290 | Rise of the Gupta dynasty founded by the feudatory Mahārājas Gupta and Ghaṭotkacha. It became supreme under Chandragupta I (A.D. 319) whose empire extended under his successors over the greater part of Northern India, from Nepāl to the Narmadā and from Kachh to Western Bengal. The Guptas maintained their sway until the early part of the sixth century A.D., when their power, broken by invasions of the Hūṇas under Toramāṇa and Mihirakula, appears to have been finally overthrown by a feudatory king, Yaśodharman, during the reign of Narasimhagupta Bālāditya.—CI. iii, Int. 17 and text. V. A. Smith, JRAS. 1889, 1 ff.; ib. 1893, 77 ff. JBA. lviii, pt. 1, 84; lxiii, pt. 1, 164 ff. NC., 3rd ser., xi, 48. VOJ. v, 215. |
| 294 | Ś. 216-223. Viśvasena, Western Kshatrapa, son of Bhartṛidāman. |
| 300 | The Dīpavaṁśa chronicle of Ceylon written. |
| 305 | Ghaṭotkacha, Gupta, son and successor of Śrīgupta. Refs. under A.D. 290. |
| 309 | Ś. 231-240. Rudrasimha II, Western Kshatrapa, son of Svāmī Jīvadāman. |
| 318 | Ś. 240. Yaśodāman II, Western Kshatrapa, son of Rudrasimha II. |
| 319 | Sunday, March 8th, V. Sam. 375, Chaitra śudi 1; epoch of the Gupta or Valabhī era which dates probably from the coronation of Chandragupta I, Vikramāditya, son and successor of Ghaṭotkacha. Chandragupta married a Lichchhavi princess of Pāṭaliputra.—Refs. under A.D. 290. |
| 336 | An Indian embassy to Constantine reaches Constantinople.—Priaulx, Apollonius of Tyana, 180. |