Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c22.s3.6

c22.s3.6

Kumāra II's reign must have terminated in or about the year A.D. 476-77, the first known date of Budha Gupta.² The reigns of Puru, Narasiṁha and Kumāra II appear to be abnormally short, amounting together to only ten years (A.D. 467-77). This is by no means a unique case. In Veṅgī three Eastern Chālukya monarchs, *viz.*, Vijayāditya IV, his son Ammarāja I, and Ammarāja's son, another Vijayāditya, ruled only for seven years and six and a half months.¹ In Kaśmīra six kings, Sūravarman I, Pārtha, Saṁbhuvardhana, Chakravarman, Unmattāvanti and Sūravarman II, ruled within six years (A. D. 933-39); and three generations of kings, *viz.*, Yaśaskara, his uncle Varṇaṭa, and his son Saṁgrāmadeva ruled for ten years (A.D. 939-49). A fragmentary seal discovered at Nālandā refer to Kumāra's son **Vishṇu Gupta** who is probably to be identified with Chandrāditya of the coins.