HIST 9A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pillars Of Ashoka, Gupta Empire, Panegyric
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Imperial guptas 320-650ce: chandragupta 320-335: founder, marries licchavi princess, samunragupta 335-375: Imperial round of conquest digiviaya: chandragupta ii, 375-415. The flowering of indian sculpture, art: kumaragupta 415-454, sumadragupta 454-467, 500-510ce gupta empire falls into decline. Shaguntla: king falls in love with her. The man youre about to marry will forget you. Political system: raimandala: core areas: direct rule of guptas. Samudra gupta-under whom the gupta empire will expand. Buddhist art: represent buddha through his footprints, wheels, bodi tree, etc. Aniconic worship so worshipping buddha by symbols of him, not him. Sanchi may have been preserved because no one found it for hundreds of years since it was in dense forest. Includes images of women with very exaggerated features to e(cid:454)press fertilit(cid:455). Elepha(cid:374)t is also a(cid:374) ico(cid:374) that is i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t. buddha"s (cid:373)other had a drea(cid:373) of an elephant which was symbol.
