Tribes in Ancient India c50.166

c50.166

After Candragupta II, the Gupta power in Magadha was temporarily eclipsed by the Puṣyamitras.² Then followed the Hūṇa invasion, in which the Emperor Skandagupta, according to Dr. Ray Chaudhuri,³ was presumably victorious, and, according to Smith,⁴ was unable to continue the successful resistance which he had offered in the earlier days of his rule, and was forced at last to succumb to the repeated attacks of the foreigners.