Gupta-temples

The Gupta age, the 4th century heralded the dawn of an epoch which eventually developed into what has generally been accepted as time of India’s greatest intellectual awakening. Several forces operating at the same time contributed to produce this summit of attainment. These forces were the established rule, the personal patronage and scholarly encouragement, favourable atmosphere and universal spirit, for revival of Brahmanism and lastly the unification of the state under one authority and consequently therefore there engendered a national spirit to give birth to ideals which transformed every phase of thought and every form of action. This fortuitious synchronisation of circumstances produced a remarkable effect on the art of the age notably that of Architecture, Percy Borwn has made a lucid estimation of this upsurge in a historical perspective and there cannot be a better support of my thesis as elaborated before in the context of the Chādya types—See Indian Architecture pp 57—58.