INCLUDES: SOURCES, FAMOUS KINGS, ADMINISTRATION WORKS OF KALIDASA, ARYABHATTA

3. SOURCES
Accounts of Fa
- Hien
The Allahabad
pillar inscription

4. ACCOUNTS OF FA-HEIN (TRAVELOUGE)
 Chinese traveler on a religious mission, visited – India and Sri
Lanka , ruler - Chandragupta II (399 AD)
 Visited – Mathura, Kannauj, Kapilavastu, Kushinagar,
Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashi and Rajgriha
 Description as per his record –
 Magadha – prosperous with wealthy population
 Pataliputra – numerous charitable institutions
 People led simple lives, observed Buddhist rules of
conduct
 Four religions – Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Buddhism and
Jainism existed, policy of tolerance followed
 Use of coins bearing images of Hindu god and goddess
 System of justice based on mild penal codes

5. ➢IMPORTANT EPIGRAPHIC INFORMATION ABOUT
GUPTAS
➢COMPOSED BY COURT POET HARISENA DURING RULE
OF SAMDRAGUPTA
➢DESCRIPTION ABOUT GUPTA RULE, LIST OF KINGS AND
TRIBAL KINGDOMS – CONQURED BY SAMDRAGUPTA
➢Nine rulers of aryavarta (north) and 12 kingdoms of
dakshinapanth (south) were defeated
➢IMPORTANT FOR GEOGRAPHICAL PURPOSE AS IT
MENTIONS ABOUT PLACES AND POPULATION OF INDIA
– 4TH CENTURY AD

8. Hindu calendar – vikram samvat
begans after his conquest of malwa

11. ▪ Most renowned educational institution of ancient India
▪ Located in Rajgriha in Bihar
▪ Detailed information about it given by Chinese traveler Hiuen
Tsang
▪ Atleast Eight colleges inside a bricked wall compound
▪ Three great libraries – Ratnasagar, Ratnodadhi and Ratnaranjak
▪ Students and teacher from around the world – Korea, Mongolia,
Japan, China, Tibet, Ceylon and various parts of India
▪ Subjects – Vedas, Grammar, Logic, Medicine
▪ Destroyed by General of Mohammed Ghori in 12th century AD

12. EDUCATION

17. FOR INFORMATION ONLY

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