PersonAD 415

Chandragupta II

Also called: Vikramaditya

Gupta king (r. c. 380–c. 415) who extended the empire to western India and brought it to its height; Kalidasa and others flourished at his court

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    Chandragupta I founded the Gupta dynasty in the Ganges valley and reunited northern India. Hinduism took shape, and Sanskrit literature, Gupta-style art and mathematics flourished in India’s classical age.

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  • Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979

    From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model