[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c29.108 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.108 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.108 - **Language:** English ### [c29.108](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.108) ² The three cases referred to are those of Chandra-gupta I and Samudragupta, the patrons of Vasubandhu, and Naragupta Bālāditya, who erected buildings at Nālandā and was regarded by Hiuen Tsang as an earnest Buddhist. Chandra-gupta II must have been specially religious. His minister in the Udayagiri inscription (Fleet, \*G. I.\*, No. 6, p. 35) describes him as \*rājādhirājarshi\*, a combination of King and Rishi. So Rājā Bhīmasena in A. D. 601 describes himself as belonging to a family like, or equal to (\*tulya\*) the royal sages—\*rājādhirājarshi\*—\*scil.\* the Guptas (Hīra Lāl, \*Descr. List\*, p. 83). - [Previous: c29.107](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.107) - [Next: c29.109](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.109) - [Up: c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.108](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c29.108) · Pramāṇa