Kumaragupta II

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| succession = Gupta emperor

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| caption =Kumaragupta II Kramaditya

| reign = {{circa|473|476 CE}}

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| predecessor =Purugupta

| successor =Budhagupta

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| dynasty =Gupta

| religion = HinduismA History of Ancient and Early Medieval India by Upinder Singh [https://books.google.com/books?id=H3lUIIYxWkEC&pg=PA521 p.521]

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Kumaragupta II (Gupta script: _14px12px12px12px_12px Ku-ma-ra-gu-pta){{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=John |title=Catalogue of the coins of the Gupta dynasties |date=1914 |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.47214/page/n284 142] |url=https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.47214}} Kramaditya was an emperor of the Gupta Empire. An image of Gautama Buddha at Sarnath notes that he succeeded Purugupta who was most likely his father.{{cite book|title=Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas|last=Agarwal|first=Ashvini|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Delhi|isbn=81-208-0592-5|year=1989|pages=220, 223–5}} He was succeeded by Budhagupta.The Gupta Empire by Radhakumud Mookerji [https://books.google.com/books?id=uYXDB2gIYbwC&pg=PA107 p.107]

Several statues of the standing Buddha, representative of Gupta art, are known from the reign of Kumaragupta II, now in the Sarnath Museum.{{cite web |title=Collections-Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds |url=https://vmis.in/ArchiveCategories/collection_gallery_zoom?id=1329&search=1&index=147669&searchstring=kumaragup |website=vmis.in |publisher=American Institute of Indian Studies}}{{cite web |title=Collections-Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds |url=https://vmis.in/ArchiveCategories/collection_gallery_zoom?id=1329&search=1&index=147690&searchstring=kumaragup |website=vmis.in |publisher=American Institute of Indian Studies}}

File:Buddha, standing under umbrella, inscribed Gift of Abhayamira in 154 GE 474 CE in the reign of Kumaragupta II.jpg|Buddha, standing under a chatra umbrella, inscribed: "Gift of Abhayamira in 154 GE" (474 CE) in the reign of Kumaragupta II. Sarnath Museum.{{cite web |title=Collections-Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds |url=https://vmis.in/ArchiveCategories/collection_gallery_zoom?id=1329&search=1&index=147669&searchstring=kumaragup |website=vmis.in |publisher=American Institute of Indian Studies}}

File:Buddha, standing, inscribed Gift of Abhayamira in 154 GE 474 CE in the reign of Kumaragupta II Sarnath Museum.jpg|Buddha, standing, inscribed: "Gift of Abhayamira in 154 GE" 474 CE in the reign of Kumaragupta II. Sarnath Museum.{{cite web |title=Collections-Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds |url=https://vmis.in/ArchiveCategories/collection_gallery_zoom?id=1329&search=1&index=147690&searchstring=kumaragup |website=vmis.in |publisher=American Institute of Indian Studies}}

File:Buddha inscription of Kumaragupta in Gupta Era 154.jpg|Inscription of the Buddha statue dated in Gupta Era 154 in the reign of Kumaragupta, with English translation.{{cite book |last1=Sahni |first1=Daya Ram |title=Annual Report Of The Archaeological Survey Of India 1914-15 |date=1920 |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35506/page/n252 124] inscription XV |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35506}}