[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933) › c15.s3.50 # History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c15.s3.50 History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c15.s3.50 - **Language:** English ### [c15.s3.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c15.s3.50) the position which the Purāṇas assign to the Ābhīras of Surāṣṭra-Avanti in the beginning of the next period (the Gupta Empire), which we shall see in the next part of this book. There were no Śaka-Satraps left in Kathiawar or Gujarat in the Vākāṭaka period. They had been ousted from there, and according to the Purāṇas they remained in Cutch and Sindh only \[Part III, § 148\]. The Republican India, which re-struck coins in the Bhāraśiva period, accepted, without any war, Samudra Gupta as emperor. It was the case of recognizing a settled fact; when the Gupta Emperor succeeded to the position of the Vākāṭaka Emperor, the Republican India naturally accepted the Gupta, as it had accepted the Vākāṭaka, as their Samrāṭ. - [Previous: c15.s3.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c15.s3.49) - [Next: c15.s3.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c15.s3.51) - [Up: c15.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c15.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c15.s3.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c15.s3.50) · Pramāṇa