1921.] Gupta Empire in Sixth and Seventh Cents. A.D. 319 
which is cold with nes water of the rushing | and waving 
torrents full of snow The “ haughty foes” on sea side 
shores were reer the Gaudas es were already 
launched on a career of conquest about this time and who are 
described as living on the seashore (samudraéraya) in the 
Haraha a of A.D. 554. 
The next king, Kumara Gupta III, had to encounter a sea 
of troubles The Gaudas* were issuing from their ‘‘ proper 
realm ’’ which was Western Bengal (as it Hania. on the sea 
and included Karnasuvarna * and Radhapuri *). 
The lord of the Andhras who had seuseaeie of three-fold 
rutting elephants,’ and the Silikas® who had an army of 
countless galloping horses. were powers to be reckoned with. 
A new power was rising in the Upper Ganges valley which was 
destined to engage in a death ae with the Guptas for the 
mastery of Northern India. This was the Maukhari power. 
The Maukharis claimed descent from the hundred sons 
r as 
The stone inscriptions of one group have been discovered in 
the Jaunpur and Bara Banki districts of the United Provinces, 
while the stone inscriptions of the other group have been 
discovered in the Gaya district of Bihar.’ The Maukharis 2 
aya (Yajfiavarman, Sardilavarman and Anantavarman) we 
admittedly a feudatory family. Prince Sardila is sailed 
Samanta-chi udamani in = Barabar Hill Cave Inscription of 
his son Anantavarman.!° 
e Maukharis of the United Provinces were also probabl 
re Ea at first. .The earliest princes of this family, 
: Op. ¢ » P- 205. 
‘Gauda’ is a sot a Dravidian term meaning a — Cf. 
Mysore te iii m the Inscriptions, p. 165. The Gau phi asaicys 
is period re ae us rat the Kaivarta outbreak of the — of the ae 
Pal ki aoe. 
. Chakravarti, J.A.S.B., 1908, p. 274. 
Prabodhachandsodaye, Act ii. sf 
5 Haraha Inscription. The Andhra king here mentioned was 
 iabgorv adbavareemes II of the Vishnukundin family who ** crossed 
the river Godavari with the desire to bagig wnt wed rea region.’ See 
Fouveaii'De bret; Ancient History of ae Deccan, p. 9 
6 Probably the Chalukyas. In t o. MahSkitte pillar — of 
Mangalega of A.D. 602 the name perce as ‘ Chalikya’ (Bomb. Gaz., Vol. 
is i j 
re) 
e Mahakuta pillar ‘nseription tells us that of the 
Chalikya dynasty gained victo ries over the eines of Vanga, Anga, Maga- 
dha, Madraka, ete. (op. cit., part II, p. 345 
1 Haraha Inscription. 
: Mahabharata, ili, 296. 39- ae - 
% Epi, ms 6 Indica, xiv, . “no; Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum 
ili, pp. 221- 
10 Fle = CL. I., p. 223. 
