The Age of the Imperial Guptas c4.129

c4.129

Of our progenitors, whom we ought to have remembered with gratitude, but whom centuries of Musalman oppression, rapine, and destruction of records have caused us to forget, the emperor Skandagupta stands in the foremost rank. When the great Magadhan nation forgot its glorious past, its sacred duty of defending the gods and Brāhmaṇas, women and children, the weak and the helpless and above all the defence of the mother-land, he alone remembered it, tried his best to maintain the glorious record of his ancestors from being tarnished and the rich and fertile plains of the Indus and Ganges from being trampled under the feet of countless hordes of barbarian Huns. He was the last great hero of Magadha who realised that it was his duty to defend the gates of India with the last drop of his life blood. He spent his whole life in the performance of this noble task and at the end of it sacrificed himself cheerfully in the performance of this sacred duty.