The Vakataka–Gupta Age (circa 200–550 A.D.) c3.5

c3.5

In a co-operative work of this kind, based upon data so vague and uncertain, it is almost inevitable that different writers, including the two editors, will express or at least entertain different opinions. In spite of long discussions between the two editors it was not possible to eliminate these differences altogether. Among important points on which they could not agree may be mentioned ‘the extent of the Vākāṭaka empire (pp. 90 ff.) and the view that Pravara-sena II of the main dynasty was the Kuntaleśa of the Kālidāsa tradition’ (p. 102, fn. 1), the struggle for independence waged by the Yaudheyas and others against the Kushāṇas (pp. 26 ff), and the relation between Piro and Rāma-gupta and specially the inference drawn from the coins of Piro about his character (pp. 20-21). Nor did complete agreement become possible with reference to the views expressed about the abdication of Chandra-gupta I (pp. 126-27), the precise western boundary of the empire of Samudra-gupta (p. 132), the assumption by him of the title *Vikrama* towards the end of his reign (p. 142), and the nationality of Toramāṇa (p. 182).