Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c25.12
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c25.12
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c25.12
From the evidence adduced above two facts emerge, *viz.*, that the father of the only Mādhava Gupta whom the biographer of Harsha knew to be the associate of his royal patron, was a king of Mālava, and that before Harsha's conquest of the province in A. D. 641,² direct control over Magadha was exercised, not by the Guptas, but by the "Varmans". The memory of "Varman" *ādhipatya* (supremacy) over Magadha had not died away even in the time of the Sirpur stone inscription of Mahāśiva Gupta.