| Purugupta | |
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| Gupta emperor | |
| Reign | c. 467 – c. 473 CE |
| Predecessor | Skandagupta |
| Successor | Kumaragupta II |
| Dynasty | Gupta |
| Father | Kumaragupta I |
| Mother | Anantadevi |
| Gupta Empire 320 CE–550 CE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Purugupta (Gupta script:
Pu-ra-gu-pta,[1]Sanskrit:पुरुगुप्त) (reigned 467–473 CE) was an emperor of theGupta dynasty in northernIndia. Purugupta was a son of the Gupta emperorKumaragupta I by his queenAnantadevi. He succeeded his half-brotherSkandagupta.[2] No inscription of Purugupta has been found so far. He is known from the Bhitari silver-copper seal of his grandsonKumaragupta III and Nalanda clay sealings of his sonsNarasimhagupta andBudhagupta and his grandsonKumaragupta III. From the Saranath Buddha image inscription, it is concluded that he was succeeded byKumaragupta II.[3] According to Hornell and Raychaudhary, Prakashaditya was another title of Purugupta,[4] although this has now been disproven by Pankaj Tandon, who has definitively shown that Prakashaditya was theHun kingToramana.[5]
According to aNalanda seal ofVishnugupta, Vishnugupta was son ofKumaragupta (III), and grandson of Purugupta.[7]
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| Preceded by | Gupta Emperor 467–473 CE | Succeeded by |
