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c. 200 BCE - c. 600 CEConstruction of the 30 Buddhist cave-shrines at Ajanta, many of which display features of Gupta architecture.
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c. 320 CE - c. 550 CEGupta period, considered a golden age of ancient India in art and architecture.
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320 CEGupta I founds the Gupta Empire in northern India
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c. 335 CE - c. 380 CERegarded as the "Indian Napoleon", the Gupta emperor Samudragupta, ruling from Magadha, subdues kings in nearly all corners of India and annexes kingdoms adjacent to Magadha.
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380 CE - 415 CEReign of Chandra Gupta II in northern India.
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395 CE - 400 CEThe Gupta emperor Chandragupta II Vikramaditya defeats Shakas and thereby gains access to the commercially important seaports on the western coast.
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401 CEThe earliest inscribed date in the Gupta-era cave-shrines at Udayagiri.
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455 CE - 457 CEThe Gupta emperor Skandagupta Kramaditya defeats the Huns.
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c. 480 CE - c. 500 CEThe Gupta-era Hindu temple at Bhitargaon is built.
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484 CE - 510 CEThe Huns conquer western and central India and fight a battle with the Guptas. The Gupta general Goparaja dies in the encounter.
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c. 550 CEThe end of the reign of Visnugupta Chandraditya, last of the Gupta rulers in northern India.