INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chandra of Indraprastha. Hint: Famous Mehrauli iron pillar inscription describes the conquest of one of the most famous kings of the Gupta dynasty . The oldest inscription found on the pillar is that of king Chandra who is generally identified as the king of the Gupta Empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -The iron pillar inscription states that the southern ocean is “perfumed by the breezes” of Chandra’s prowess. This may be a reference to Chandragupta’s extension of the Gupta rule to the Arabian Sea after his conquest of the Western Kshatrapa territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mahrauli Inscription / Garuda Pillar-History Scholars have discovered the name “Chandra” in the third stanza of the inscription on the Iron pillar, which signifies kings of the Gupta Dynasty. The king is identified as Chandragupta II (375-415 CE) who was the son of King Samudragupta.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chandragupta II-Conquests The “Shaka-Murundas” are mentioned among the kings who tried to appease Chandragupta’s father Samudragupta in the Allahabad Pillar inscription. Samudragupta may have reduced the Shakas to a subordinate alliance, and Chandragupta completely subjugated them.

Detailed explanation-5: -From 388 to 409 he subjugated Gujarat, the region north of Bombay (Mumbai), Saurastra (now Saurashtra), in western India, and Malwa, with its capital at Ujjain. These territories were ruled by Shaka chiefs, whose ancestors were Scythian tribes from the regions around Lake Balkhash (Balqash) in Kazakhstan.