The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c8.s8.1

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Pravarasena II ascended the throne in c. A.D. 410. Gupta influence continued to be exercised over the Vākāṭaka administration even after the termination of the regency of Prabhāvatīguptā. A literary tradition recorded in several works¹ states that during the first few years of his reign, Pravarasena was more interested in the pleasures of life than in the problems of administration, and so allowed the old regency arrangements to continue. Chandragupta II continued to have the dominant voice in the Vākāṭaka administration down to his death in c. A.D. 414. After that event, Pravarasena began to govern on his own account. Kumāragupta I was his maternal step-uncle and so Prabhāvatīguptā must have urged her son not to leave the conduct of the Vākāṭaka government in the hands of the new emperor, as they had been virtually in those of his predecessor.