Early in this period, which finally culminated in the creation of the Gupta Empire, relations with ancient Greece and Rome were not infrequent.

Fresco from Ajanta build during the Gupta Empire in the 6th century

Much of northern and central India was united in the 4th century CE, and remained so for two centuries, under the Gupta Empire.

The " Classical Age " in India began with the Gupta Empire and the resurgence of the north during Harsha's conquests around the 7th century CE, and ended with the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in the south in the 13th century, due to pressure from the invaders to the north.

The subsequent Slave dynasty of Delhi managed to conquer large areas of northern India, approximately equal in extent to the ancient Gupta Empire, while the Khilji dynasty was also able to conquer most of central India, but were ultimately unsuccessful in conquering and uniting the subcontinent.

The final end of republics in India came with the rise of the Gupta Empire, and an associated philosophy of the divine nature of monarchy.

In the 7th century, Harsha united Northern India, which had reverted to small republics and states after the fall of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century.

The classical Gupta Empire of Northern India, largely overrun by the Huna, ended in the mid-6th century.

In India, the Kushan Empire was replaced by the Gupta Empire.

* Budhagupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire, establishes diplomatic relations with the Kannauj kingdom and drives the Huns out of the fertile plains of northern India.

* King Rudrasimha III, ruler of the Western Satraps ( India ), is defeated by the Gupta Empire.

* Chandragupta II, emperor of the Gupta Empire ( India )

* Kumaragupta I succeeds his father Chandragupta II as emperor of the Gupta Empire ( India ).

* Chandragupta II, emperor of the Gupta Empire

* Skandagupta succeeds Kumaragupta I as ruler of the Gupta Empire ( India ).

* Kumaragupta I, ruler of the Gupta Empire ( India )

* Gupta Empire falls ( approximate date ).

Chandragupta II had defeated a confederacy of Vanga kings resulting in Bengal becoming part of the Gupta Empire.

By the 6th century, the Gupta Empire ruling over the northern Indian subcontinent was largely broken up.

Shashanka, a vassal of the last Gupta Empire became independent and unified the smaller principalities of Bengal ( Gaur, Vanga, Samatata ) and vied for regional power with Harshavardhana in northern India.

The city is also important in the history and heritage of Buddhism in India, with several Buddhist temples, monuments and centers of learning having been established here during the age of the Mauryan Empire and the Gupta Dynasty.

It is estimated that the Sanskrit text probably reached something of a " final form " by the early Gupta period ( about the 4th century CE ).

For instance, Abhijñānashākuntala by the renowned Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa ( c. 400 CE ), believed to have lived in the era of the Gupta dynasty, is based on a story that is the precursor to the Mahabharata.

Classical Sanskrit literature flowers in the Maurya and Gupta periods, roughly spanning the 2nd century BC to the 8th century AD.

Early Medieval ( Gupta period ) literature in India sees the flowering of Sanskrit drama, classical Sanskrit poetry and the compilation of the Puranas.

Kalidasa, who was a great playwright, who wrote plays such as Shakuntala, which is said to have inspired Goethe, and marked the highest point of Sanskrit literature is also said to have belonged to this period. The famous Sushruta Samhita, which is a Sanskrit redaction text on all of the major concepts of ayurvedic medicine with innovative chapters on surgery, dates to the Gupta period.

Chandragupta II The Great ( Sanskrit: ; candragupta vikramāditya ) was one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire in northern India.

The language of Licchavi inscriptions is Sanskrit, and the particular script used is closely related to official Gupta scripts, suggesting that India was a significant cultural influence.

According to some academicians, the name Gupta is derived from Sanskrit goptri, meaning military governor.

The Gupta script ( sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi Script or Late Brahmi Script ) was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire of India which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments.

Some modern scholars, like Shashibhusan Das Gupta have suggested that it may be derived either from Sanskrit word vatula, which means " enlightened, lashed by the wind to the point of losing one's sanity, god's madcap, detached from the world, and seeker of truth ", or from vyakula, which means " restless, agitated " and both of these derivations are consistent with the modern sense of the word, which denotes the inspired people with an ecstatic eagerness for a spiritual life, where a person can realise his union with the eternal beloved-the Maner Manush ( the man of the heart ).

The classical period of Sanskrit literature dates to the Gupta period and the successive pre-Islamic Middle kingdoms of India, spanning roughly the 3rd to 8th centuries CE.

The case of Maharaja (" Great Raja ", great King and Prince, in Sanskrit and Hindi ) on the Indian subcontinent, originally reserved for the regional hegemon such as the Gupta, is a striking example how such a lofty style of this or an alternative model can get caught in a cycle of devalution by " title inflation " as ever more, mostly less powerful, rulers adopt the style.

* The Nātya Shāstra, an ancient work of dramatic theory Bharata Muni describes the Sanskrit theatre of the Gupta Empire ; Koodiyattam is believed to preserve some aspects of the performance style of that period.

At present he is working with Ravi M. Gupta on a ‘ companion ’ to the Bhagavata Purana, and on a translation of a 16th century Sanskrit Vaisnava ritual texts in corroboration with Dr. Mans Broo ( Abo Akademie, Finland ).

The Gupta period ( 4th to 6th centuries ) saw a flowering of scholarship, the emergence of the classical schools of Hindu philosophy, and of classical Sanskrit literature in general on topics ranging from medicine, veterinary science, mathematics, to astrology and astronomy and astrophysics.

In Sanskrit, the word for ocean is samudra, and so Asher suggested that to people of the time this might have recalled the name of Samudra Gupta, Candragupta II's father, who merged many kingdoms into his empire in the same way that the two rivers merged into the ocean.

The Buddha-Gupta stone, dating to the 4th-5th century CE, was dedicated by an Indian Merchant, Buddha Gupta, as an expression of gratitude for his safe arrival after a voyage to the Malay peninsula.

In 1996 during the third Test in Kanpur, he was introduced to Mukesh Gupta by Mohammad Azharuddin.

Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization. Maurya and Gupta empires are called as the Golden Age of India and were marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, art, religion and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Indian culture. The religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, which began in India, were an important influence on South, East and Southeast Asia

Rajat Gupta, who reached the pinnacle of corporate America as managing partner of McKinsey & Co. and director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS ) and Procter & Gamble Co. ( PG ), was convicted by a federal jury of leaking inside information to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

Avinash Gupta was the first leader of the project, followed by Bryce Harrington, but more recently developers have chosen not to select a leader,

Though married to Bergman, he had an affair with Sonali Das Gupta, a screenwriter, who was helping develop vignettes for the film.

Monica Das Gupta ( 2005 ) observes that, in late 1980s to early 1990s China, there was no evidence of selective abortion of female fetuses among firstborn children, or in families with one or more existing sons ( in fact, families with multiple sons were, if anything, more likely to abort a boy than a girl ).

Rock-cut sculpture of Vishnu in his Varaha incarnation at the Udayagiri Caves, near Vidisha, carved when the city was a provincial capital of the Gupta Empire.

The Temple was gifted by the nationalists Babu Shiv Prasad Gupta ( later awarded Bharat Ratna ) and shri Durga Prasad Khatri, leading numismatists and antiquarians.

Chinmoy claimed that for about eight years, he was the personal secretary to the General Secretary of the ashram, Nolini Kanta Gupta.

Nolini Kanta Gupta was a scholar, whose writing was admired by Rabindranath Tagore.

The Gupta Empire (, ) was an ancient Indian empire which existed from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.

Founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization.

After the collapse of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century, India was again ruled by numerous regional kingdoms.

According to many historians, the Gupta Empire was a Vaish dynasty.

According to historian Michael C. Brannigan, the rise of the Gupta Empire was one of the most prominent violations of the caste system in ancient India.

Fa Xian was the first of the Chinese pilgrims who visited India during the reign of Gupta emperor Chandragupta II.

From his accounts, the Gupta Empire was a prosperous period.