Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c22.s6.21
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c22.s6.21
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c22.s6.21
We have seen that Īśānavarman's mother and grand-mother were probably Gupta princesses. The mother of Prabhākaravardhana, the other empire-builder of the second half of the sixth century, appears also to have been a Gupta princess. It seems that the Gupta marriages in this period were as efficacious in stimulating imperial ambition³ as the Lichchhavi marriages of more ancient times.