The Age of the Imperial Guptas c4.6

c4.6

Strengthened by the Licchavī alliance Candragupta I was able either to drive out the Scythian Satrap of Magadha or to throw off the loose allegiance of the chiefs of Magadha to the Later Great Kuṣāṇas of Mathurā or the Panjab. Candragupta I was most probably advanced in years at the time of the revolution or the war of independence in Magadha and we have positive proof of his short rule in the date of the Gaya copper plate inscription of his son, Samudragupta. He simply drove out the Scythians and gave independence to the province of Magadha after three centuries of subjection and foreign oppression.