The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s8.10

c7.s8.10

II. The Bhāra Śiva and Vākāṭaka Empires (150-348 A.C.). "The history of the Imperial Hindu revival," says Kasiprasad Jayaswal, "is not to be dated in the fourth century with Samudragupta, not even with the Vākāṭakas nearly a century earlier, but with the Bhāra Śivas half a century earlier still." Again, "if there had been no Bhāra Śivas there would not have come into existence a Gupta Empire and the Gupta Vikramādityas."²¹