The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.148

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The imperial line passes by an obscure transition into a dynasty comprising eleven Gupta princes, who appear to have been for the most part merely local rulers in Magadha. These 'Later Guptas of Magadha', as they are called by archaeologists, shared the rule of that province with another dynasty of Rājas, who had names ending in *-varman*, and belonged to a clan called Maukhari. The territorial division between the two dynasties cannot be defined precisely, but the Maukhari dominion in the middle of the sixth century included Oudh. Their relations with one another were sometimes friendly and sometimes hostile, but the few details known are of little importance.¹