The Gupta Empire ruled much of northern India from 320 to 550 CE and established a period of peace and prosperity. This Golden Age of India saw advancements in science, technology, art, literature, and religion that solidified Hindu culture. Gupta architecture can be seen in their elaborate temples built to various Hindu gods during this religiously intense time. Sculpture also flourished as figures of Hindu deities and Buddhas emerged.

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The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire, founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta, which existed from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.
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The peace and prosperity created under the leadership of the Gupta’s enabled the pursuit of scientific and artistic endeavors.
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This period is called the Golden Age of India and was marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Hindu culture.

3. The Gupta period is generally regarded as a classic peak of north Indian art for all the major religious groups.
The Gupta Age, being an age of intense religion interests, saw the construction of large number of temples and religious architectures.

4. The excellence of Gupta architecture can be seen in the temples of various Hindu Gods such as Shiva, Vishnu, Surya, Kartikeya, etc.

5. Vishnu
Krishna

6. Ellora
Buddha

7. Dashavatara Temple
Ajanta Padmapani

8. The period saw the emergence of the iconic carved stone deity in Hindu art, as well as the Buddha figure and Jain tirthankara figures, these last often on a very large scale.

9. The two great center's of sculpture wereMathuraandGandhara, the latter the centreof
Greco-Buddhist art.

10. Guptanstyle, the caves at Ajanta, Elephanta, and Ellorawere in fact produced under later dynasties, but largely reflect the monumentality and balance of Guptanstyle.

11. Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh

12. The Hindu UdayagiriCaves actually record connections with the dynasty and its ministers,andthe Dashavatara Temple at Deogarhis a major temple, one of the earliest to survive, with important sculpture.

13. The culture of the Gupta Age went by its unique value and excellence. Many features of that culture left there legacies for the future.
The greatest works of such immortal sons of India as Kalidasaand Aryabhatta, and the great objects of timeless appeal as SarnathBuddha and the Ajanta fresco will continue to represent the glories of the Gupta Age.

14. is the priceless cultural heritage of India’s rich past.