The Vakataka–Gupta Age (circa 200–550 A.D.) c8.s8.2
The Vākāṭaka–Gupta Age (circa 200–550 A.D.) c8.s8.2
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Before the rise of the Kuṣāṇa empire there was an Audumbara republic occupying the districts of Kangra, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur in the Punjab. Numerous coins of this republic have been found issued in the pre-Kuṣāṇa period but none in the post-Kuṣāṇa epoch. This circumstance may probably be explained on the assumption that the Audumbaras did not succeed in emerging as an independent state in the 3rd or the 4th century A.D. Probably they were merged in the Madra republic.