Gupta (king)
| Gupta | |
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| Maharaja Shri | |
Mahārāja Shrī Gupta ("Great King, Lord Gupta") in Gupta script on the Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta, where Samudragupta presents king Gupta as his great-grandfather. | |
| Gupta King | |
| Reign | c. 240 – c. 280 |
| Successor | Ghatotkacha |
| Issue | Ghatotkacha |
| Dynasty | Gupta |
| Gupta Empire 320–550 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gupta or Shrigupta (Gupta script: Gu-pta, fl. late 3rd century CE) was the founder of the Gupta dynasty of Magadha (eastern India). He is identified with king Shìlìjíduō (室利笈多, believed to be the Chinese transcription of "Shri-Gupta"), who, according to the 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk Yijing, built a temple near Mìlìjiāxītābōnuó (蜜栗伽悉他鉢娜, Mṛgaśikhāvana) for Chinese pilgrims. This temple was located somewhere in eastern India: based on the identification of its location, modern scholars variously locate Gupta's territory in present-day eastern Uttar Pradesh or Bengal region.