• Chandragupta I adopted the tile ‘Maharajadhiraja’.
• Samudragupta is popularly known as ‘Indian Napoleon’, because of his extensive military conquest.
• He was a many sided genius-scholar poet, musician and warrior.
• Harisena was the court poet of Samudragupta.
• Chandragupta II is popularly known as ‘ Vikramaditya’.
• Fahein, the Chinese traveler visited India during his time.
• Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Shankaracharya, Dhanwantri, Bhaskaracharya, Aryabhatta etc. are important person who lived during his period.
• The Gupta period began in 320 AD and the Gupta rule is called ‘the Golder Age’ or ‘the Classical Age’ of ancient India.
• Gupta issued large number of gold coins in India.
• Earlier Guptas had their capital at Prayag in Allahabad, but later it was shifted to Ujjain by Chandragupta II.
• Gupta largely patronized art and architecture.
• Guptas Patronized Gandhara school fo art, Madhura school fo art and Andhra school of Art.
• The Fresco paintings of Ajanta caves are examples of the art of the Guptas.
• The period of the Imperial Guptas has often been described as the golden age of ancient India. The most important officers in the Gupta empire were the Kumaramatyas.
• The specimens of Gupta paintings are preserved in the Ajanta Caves and the Bagh caves.
• The Gupta era started in 320AD. The Chief source of revenue was from land.
• The royal seal of the Gupta’s bore emblem of the Garuda.
• In Gupta period the position of the women declined.
• The official language of the Guptas was Sanskrit.
• A renowned Physician of the Gupta period was Vagbhatta.
• Nalanda and Taxila were two universities during this period.
• Pala dynasty was founded by Gopala. Its king Dharmapala founded Vikramashila University.
• Kalidasa the court poet of Chandragupta II, wrote Abhinjanashakuntala, Malavikagnimitra, Vikramorvasiam,