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Key facts
- Royalty.title
- Mahārājādhirāja Chakravarti Samrat
- Royalty.image
- SamudraguptaCoin.png
- Royalty.caption
- Coin of Samudragupta, with Garuda pillar, emblem of Gupta Empire. The name 12px10px10px Sa-mu-dra in an early version of the Gupta Brahmi script, appears vertically under the left arm of the emperor.
- Royalty.succession
- Gupta emperor
- Royalty.birth_date
- 318
- Royalty.birth_place
- Gupta Empire
- Royalty.death_place
- Gupta Empire
- Royalty.reign
- 335–375
- Royalty.predecessor
- Chandragupta I, possibly Kacha
- Royalty.successor
- Chandragupta II, or possibly Ramagupta
- Royalty.spouse
- Dattadevi
- Royalty.issue
- Chandragupta II, and possibly Ramagupta
- Royalty.house
- Gupta Dynasty
- Royalty.father
- Chandragupta I
- Royalty.mother
- Kumaradevi
- Royalty.religion
- Hinduism
- Military person.embed
- yes
- Military person.allegiance
- Gupta Empire
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Gupta Empire
- Place of birth
- Indraprastha
- Place of death
- Pataliputra
- Child
- Chandragupta II
- Father
- Chandragupta I
- Family
- Gupta
- Image
- SamudraguptaCoin.jpg
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- Chandragupta II
- date of birth
- 0335-01-01
- date of death
- 0380-01-01
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- Samudragupta
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Encyclopedic overview
26 sectionsContents
- Period
- Ascension
- Military campaigns & territorial expansion
- Early victories
- Southern conquests
- Northern conquests
- Conquests in the forest region
- Frontier kings and tribes
- Relations with other rulers
- Daivaputra-Shahi-Shahanushahi
- Shaka-Murundas
- Simhala and other islands
- Imperial extent
- Coinage
- Inscriptions
- Eran inscription
- Religion
- Ashvamedha
- Personality
- Legacy
- Indian Embassy to Rome
- Succession
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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Samudragupta (Gupta script: 14px11px12px14px12px Sa-mu-dra-gu-pta; 318–375) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he inherited the kingdom and transformed it into a vast empire through his military campaigns.
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