The University of Nalanda c9.80

c9.80

Two scholars have attempted to identify these kings and tried to give them a local habitation and a name. According to Kimura³ we can recognise two Gupta Kings at first sight from the list presented by Hiuen Tsiang, namely, Buddha gupta and Bālāditya. Secondly, he says that Buddhagupta was the successor of Skandagupta, who reigned about 484 A.D. Śakrāditya, therefore, reigned about 450 A.D.; and as Skandagupta ruled, as it has been established, from 455 to 480 A.D., “Śakrāditya consequently becomes identical with Skandagupta.” Thirdly, on the strength of Vincent Smith's authority, he says that “Buddhagupta was the king of Nālandā and belonged to another branch of the main Guptas.”