Purugupta

{{Short description|Maharajadhiraja of the Gupta Empire from 467 to 473}}

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| reign = {{circa|467|473}}

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| predecessor = Skandagupta

| successor =Kumaragupta II

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| dynasty = Gupta

| father = Kumaragupta I

| mother = Anantadevi

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Purugupta (Gupta script: 12px12px14px_14px Pu-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/n276 134] |url=https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.47214}} {{langx|sa|पुरुगुप्त}}) (reigned 467–473 CE) was an emperor of the Gupta dynasty in northern India. Purugupta was a son of the Gupta emperor Kumaragupta I by his queen Anantadevi. He succeeded his half-brother Skandagupta.{{cite book|title=Ancient India|page=512|last=Mahajan|first=V. D.|publisher=S. Chand|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-219-0887-0|year=2007|orig-year=1960}} No inscription of Purugupta has been found so far. He is known from the Bhitari silver-copper seal of his grandson Kumaragupta III and Nalanda clay sealings of his sons Narasimhagupta and Budhagupta and his grandson Kumaragupta III. From the Saranath Buddha image inscription, it is concluded that he was succeeded by Kumaragupta II.{{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}} According to Hornell and Raychaudhary, Prakashaditya was another title of Purugupta,{{cite book|title=Ancient India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eljzDwAAQBAJ|author=V D Mahajan|publisher=S. Chand Publishing|year=2019|page=397|isbn = 9789352837243}} although this has now been disproven by Pankaj Tandon, who has definitively shown that Prakashaditya was the Hun king Toramana.Pankaj Tandon: "The Identity of Prakasaditya," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, October 2015, pp. 647-668 [http://coinindia.com/Prakasaditya.pdf]

File:Nalanda clay seal of Vishnugupta.jpg. The seal states that Vishnugupta was son of Kumaragupta (III), and grandson of Purugupta.Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol.3 (inscriptions Of The Early Gupta Kings) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108395 p.364]]]

According to a Nalanda seal of Vishnugupta, Vishnugupta was son of Kumaragupta (III), and grandson of Purugupta.Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol.3 (inscriptions Of The Early Gupta Kings) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108395 p.364]