History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c16.s2.8
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c16.s2.8
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which means, that while the Nava Nāgas ruled at Padmāvatī, Kāntipurī and Mathurā, the Māgadha Guptas ruled at Prayāga-on-the-Ganges. This shows that their first fief was in the district of Allahabad and that at that time they were considered to have been natives of Magadha. The plain meaning of this datum is that the Early Guptas were rulers at Allahabad, not on the Jumna side but on the Ganges side, i.e. on the side of Oudh and Benares. The Viṣṇu reads anu-Gaṅgā-Prayāga as one word, which it gives as the name of a capital like Padmāvatī, Kāntipurī and Mathurā. It is not anu-Gaṅgā by itself, an indefinite regional term. Neither the Bhāgavata nor the Viṣṇu mentions here Sāketa. The Viṣṇu by putting the plural form ‘the Guptas’ and qualifying them with the adjective the ‘Magadhan’, refers to a period when the Guptas had been dispossessed from Magadha, the pre-imperial years of Samudra Gupta.