History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c18.s1.11

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§ 210. Grand and pleasing is this picture and the mind gets so captivated that it becomes most reluctant to turn away from the vision of Samudra Gupta’s India. A present-day historian trained in Imperialism would naturally take delight in that picture, a picture of bold strokes, of Kiriṭa and Kuṇḍala, the picture of imperial Hinduism, of the revealed vision of the greatness of the Guptas. But does his duty end with reproducing on the fresco of the past of his race the picture of the Gupta superman? His duty does not conclude without giving the judgment of the post-Gupta Hindu who looked back on Gupta imperialism and coolly analysed it. The Hindu historian