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612 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
Petty Gupta Princes, apparently connected with the imperial line, ruled in the Kanarese districts during the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries A. D. and are frequently mentioned in inscriptions. Evidence of an earlier connection of the Guptas with the Kanarese country is furnished by the Tālagund inscription which says that Kākustha-varman of the Kadamba dynasty gave his daughters in marriage to the Gupta and other kings. In the fifth or sixth century A. D. the Vākāțaka king Narendrasena, a descendant of Chandra Gupta II Vikramāditya through his daughter Prabhāvati Guptā; is said to have married a princess of Kuntala, i.e., of the Kanarese region. Curiously enough, the Gutta or Gupta chiefs of the Kanarese country claimed descent from Chandra Gupta Vikramāditya,” lord of Ujjayinī.3
in the days of Yasovarman early in the eighth century cannot be taken to prove that Gauda and later Gupta are interchangeable terms, In this period lordship of Magadha is not inseparably connected only with later Gupta lineage. Cf. the passage Magadhātipatyamahatām jāta kule varmanām, which proves the existence of non-Gupta lines among rulers of Magadha in this age.
1 Jouveau-Dubreuil, AHD, p. 76.
2 Bomb. Gaz., Vol. I, Part II, pp. 578-80. Sir R. G. Bhandarkar, "A Peep into the Early History of India," p. 60. I owe this reference to Dr. Bhandarkar.
3 The account of the Later Guptas was first published in the JASB, 1920, No. 7.
