Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture - North and South India
author: Michael W. Meister
edition: 1986, American Institute of Indian Studies
pages: 6147
Topic: History
Chapter 3 - Vakatakas (Main Branch
This chapter describes Vakatakas (Main Branch located on page 59 in the book Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture (North and South India) compiled by Michael W. Meister, George Michell and M. A. Dhaky. These books deal with Indian temples from the early centuries. South India developed the Dravidian style while North India expressed symbolic experimentation of the divine manifestation.
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Triveni Journal
That is why he declares himself to be the husband of the Vakataka princess and the adorer of the God of Srisailam. But the marriage of the Vakataka princess with Madhavavarman need not have taken place in the reign of Chandragupta II. The practical supremacy of the Guptas over the Vakatakas must be obvious to one versed in the circumstances. Queen Prabhavati must have been a closely connecting link....
Read full contents: Expansion of the Gupta Empire
A Historical Study of Kaushambi [by Nirja Sharma]
D. , when the Vakatakas had become a great power and claimed imperial dignity in the time of Pravarasena I. Pravarasena I was Vaara succeded by Rud rasena I. Samudragupta inflicted a smashing defeat upon Budrasena I, the successor of Pravarasena in a sanguinary battle fought at Kaushambi in which the Vakataka king lost his life on the battlefield about c. 345 A. D. The Vakatakas then sank into the position of mere feudatories of the great Gupta empire....
Read full contents: Kaushambi under the Gupta Dynasty (350 to about 500 A.D.)
Impact of Vedic Culture on Society [by Kaushik Acharya]
Shastri, Vakatakas: Sources and History, pp. 32-33] . (* 4) USVAE, vol. III, p. 186....
Read full contents: Sanskrit Inscriptions (A): The Vakatakas
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