Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c21.s2.1

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Chandra Gupta II's successor was Kumāra Gupta I¹ surnamed Mahendrāditya² whose certain dates range from A.D. 415 to A.D. 455.³ His extensive coinage, and the wide distribution of his inscriptions show that he was able to retain his father's empire including the central and western provinces.⁴ One of his viceroys, Chirātadatta, governed Puṇḍravardhana Bhukti or roughly North Bengal,¹ another viceroy, prince Ghaṭotkacha Gupta, held office in the province of Eraṇ (in Eastern Mālwa) which included Tumbavana;² a third viceroy or feudatory, Bandhuvarman, ruled at Daśapura in western Mālwa.³ The Karamadāṇḍe inscription of A. D. 436 mentions Pṛithivīsheṇa who was a *Mantrin* and *Kumārāmātya*, and afterwards *Mahā-balādhikṛita* or general under Kumāra Gupta, probably stationed in Oudh. The panegyrist of a Mālwa viceroy claims that the suzerainty of Kumāra Gupta extended over "the whole earth which is decked with the rolling seas as with a rocking girdle, which holds in its breast-like mountain altitudes the