History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c16.s4.65
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c16.s4.65
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151. Evidence of A r t further establishes a Guptan connection with Indian Colonies. Pieces of sculpture going back to the fourth century A.D. have been noticed as bearing the stamp of the Vākāṭaka-Gupta Art, and temples of the Gupta type have been found in Cambodia.² Similarly the introduction of the Gupta script and its adaptation in Burma, and the large finds of Gupta terracottas in Burma are to be noted.³ The history of Art in subsequent centuries in Indonesia is so indissolubly knit with the Gupta art that it is to be regarded as bearing solid testimony to the introduction of Gupta influence beginning with Samudra Gupta’s time. Samudra Gupta, if not politically, yet culturally, did cause the unity of Further India with the Motherland within his two arms⁴.