When the Gupta Empire fought the Huns | Gupta-Huns Wars
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I will talk about the conflict between the Gupta and the Huns. From the reign of Chandragupta II to the reign of Skandagupta, how the Guptas fought with the Huns will be discussed in this video.
Reference
1. The Alkan A Hunnic People in South Asia by Hans T Bakker
2. The Political History of the Hunas in India by Atreyi Biswas
3. History of Civilization of Central Asia Vol 3
4. The World of the Skandapurāṇa by Hans T. Bakker
5. Two curious 'Kidarite' coin types from 5th century Kashmir by Joe Cribbs and Karan Singh
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This period is pure Bollywood material.
The whole gupta period is a pure Bollywood material in itself , especially the campaigns of valiant king Samudragupta ..... Like how he subdued all the greatest powers of that time such as pallavas and vakatakas is really something else ..... It would be the scene of full goosebumps when he returns to his kingdom to perform ashwamedh yagya .
Please don't give them any idea 😂😂😢
@@thestormbreaker6221 Bhagwan : you can't catch me like that
@@Phoenix-wh2bn Ahh sorry sir I don't get your joke ....
Tollywood will do a better job
Yess I need more of this in my life really fascinated with the hepthalites huna the guptas but not a lot of accessible history in detail. Thanks!
Hey a request Jay, please summarize Indian history in a sequence from the earliest to latest. Since you are coming close to your 100 videos. A 2-5 episode summary will be very helpful. You can link your various videos in this marathon session. But please use a timeline fixed for constant reference on the one side of screen.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will do a summary of the period that I've covered. Just like I did with the post-Mauryan India. After I've covered Ancient Indian history, then I will do a small series summarising the whole period.
@@JayVardhanSinghplease don't be tricked by the Aryan invasion and how Aryans could write about saraswati in rig Veda centuries after saraswati had dried. 😅
Please make video on Gupta empire temple architecture and other art. How did Gupta maintain religious balance between Hinduism and Buddhism? Also video for end of Gupta rule with later Guptas
I dont think that guptas maintained any balance between hinduism and buuddhism. The Gupta Emperors were staunch Hindus who profoundly promoted hinduism( vaishnava sect).
@@Lmao69 they also equally contributed for Buddhist art and education institution
There was no mention from Buddhist sources that Gupta's were against them like Shungas
@@manthanpandya7501 sanchi stupta was renovated and enlarged by the shungas themselves. Shungas were villified by Buddhists just like Shashanka because they did not supported it. No historians agree with the statement that shungas prosecuted normal Buddhists. But they sure executed those traitor Buddhists who supported the Greek invaders Demetrius and menander.
@@manthanpandya7501 there was nothing called Buddhist institutions. They had nothing to do with Buddhism. Vedas, puranas , Upanishads etc were taught in those institutions. The professors were mostly Hindu, that too Brahmins.
@@manthanpandya7501 The Gupta's supported art and literature. If you see any Gupta pillar or anything with Buddhist and Jain images, then most likely that area had significant non Hindu population.
4:54 From what I know tho, the Kidarites were a seperate group of huns, and had nothing to do with Attila the Hun, who was attacking Rome at that time.
As of yet, we don't know the relationship between the Kidarites and Attila. But according to some scholars, the fact that soon after the death of Attila, the Guptas and the Sassanids began their campaign against the Kidarites suggests some connection. Whether there was a military connection between the two Hunnic groups is difficult to tell. For more information, you can read Hans Bakker's work that I have listed in my reference.
@@JayVardhanSingh I'll be sure to check it out. Thank you for the reply!
Good focus, well narrated. 7:47 They came to Malabar in the 2nd century AD and set up agraham, a municiiality. Sometime in 6th CE they set base in Mannargudi and soon took
Control of the inland trade and resources. For the Hans to be everywhere in South and East Asia is because they provided management services to the locals and eventually managed to take full control jointly with the priest kings. While they take the resources and knowledge of a place, they themselves leave no trail so there is little info about them.
जय बनिया सम्राट समुद्र गुप्ता ❤
Topic suggestions : when temple building started in India and which books talk about building temple and architecture of temple.
Thanks for the suggestion. Will soon do a video on this topic.
Ligter skin tone and Caucasian facial features of a particular area is directly related to the foreign tribes influx into that area.
As people of punjab Rajasthan in General are fairer and taller than people of bihar bengal odisa.
Jats and rors are proven to be related to pashtuns and kushans.
Upper castes of Eastern UP and Bihar are taller and fairer than the other people in these regions. Upper caste people of the same village look so different in general to the people of lower castes. Some phenotypes are common though.
@Samudra121 that is true. Alot of foreign dna has been coming since 500 bce it became more and more. In Pakistan men are brown but women are white.
Professor I have 2 questions...
What does the death of Attila have to do with Kedarites being attacked on 2 fronts? Whats the reason behind?
And the second one is whats the difference between hephthalites and kedarites?
Greatly appreciate ur response...
Excellent video
Bro going on binge watch through your content..
thanks bhai, greatly appreciate it.
Greetings from Hungary :)
Hey, pls can you make a video about the history of thrones in the indian subcontinent From the vedic period to the modern era.
Will try to find some sources first. If I found sufficient source for a video, then surely do a video on this topic. Thanks for the suggestion.
Great job Jay! You are consistently bringing good content. My question is who was ruling in the blank region on the map between Gupta and Sassanians? Mostly middle and lower Indus region, Sindh, Punjab, Rajasthan?
Aslo would the Yaudhehas under Gupta be fighting the Huns in this period? Your video th-cam.com/video/O4YhgFHf6co/w-d-xo.html seems a good candidate for in video link.
Difficult to answer. We don't really know about who were ruling this region. In Punjab, there is some evidence that small shaka kingdoms were present. But apart from that it is hard to know about the other powers.
The republic of Punjab and the surrounding region came under the overlordship of the Gupta during the reign of Samudragupta. Whether they took part against the Huns is difficult to tell.
Did the Guptas have mounted archers?
If they fought the huns they would certainly know how effective mounted archers were. Why did the Guptas or successive empires not have mounted archers?
I remember reading that they did adopt mounted archers to some extent in their northwestern provinces, but they still primarily relied on melee cavalry and foot archers against the Huns.
Each hunnic tribe called themselves different according to governing dynasty. Look at these hunnic tribes: yakut, soghut, soyot, sakit, sakha, sakir, sabir, sumer, kimmer, kengir, oghur, tagar, tatar, avar, volgar, bolgar, balkar, magyar, afshar, qashqai/kashgar, kachkar, altai/altar, azer, khazar, kazakh, karluk, turuk, turkmen, yürük, uruk, uzbek, kinik, bozok, uchok, hakas, kirgiz, oghuz, gagauz etc... Most of them finish with -ut, -ur, -ar, -ir, -iz, -uz, -uk, -ok which means mostly plural "-s" in english or means "we are" or "arrow" having synonim...
Was region of Sindh and Kashmir ever ruled by Guptas?
Here in a map the region of Sindh and Eastern Punjab and Rajasthan are not shown part of any kingdom why so?
No, Kashmir wasn't part of the Gupta Empire. About Sindh, we haven't found any Gupta coins from this region. So I haven't included it in the Gupta Map.
The Map is based on the spread of Gupta coinage. So those territories where we have found Gupta coins and inscriptions are included in this map as belonging to the Gupta empire.
Thanks for letting me know about coins and maps
If Samudragupt and Chandragupta extended empire till North and also had war with north West sides
Extended in southern peninsula except Vakataka empire
Then why not Sindh? Who was ruling there then? Wikipedia shows Gupta extent till Rajasthan border only.
There was no way for southern extension North West was tough with emerging Huns
So why not Sindh?
If you can make a video on Pre Arab history of Sindh? Any proper source or book other than Chachnama for Sindh ?
Thank you again
@@manthanpandya7501 I mean you r ignoring the geo politics...Gupta's had many other foes who will always take advantage of Gupta's engaged in other conflict...not to mention the Sindh territory acted as a kind of buffer b/w Gupta's and Sassanids..
@@zfst Maine kisi ka side nahi Kiya..balkii jo Satya hain wo bataya hain..
@@aryanjaiswal8935 then my question is who was rulling sindh region during Gupta's age?
V. Informative video
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Thanks and welcome
Hindi m bnao Bhai jabardast hai video
Thank you Bhai.
Hindi mein ek channel shuru krunga aage chal kr.
क्या कभी भी गुप्ताओं ने वकटकों पर राज किया था ? क्या उनका राज महाराष्ट्र, पूरा पंजाब, और काबुल के क्षेत्र में था ?
Nhi vakatakon pr kabhi nhi shashan tha. Maharashtra aur punjab ke kuch hisse Gupta samarajya mein jaroor aate the. Kabul pr kabhi unka raaj nhi thaa
@@JayVardhanSingh acha, thanks bhai. Maine maps dekhe hai jinmein gandhar gupta samrajya mein dikhaya jaa raha hai
Hun / Hoon ka uccharan theek nhi he sir.
Nice
I am a big fan of Atilla Han , wish more people knew about him
You lucky they just found his grave with body in Romania
You mean Attila the Hun*
@@John_Rambo69 I think he’s Chinese so it’s Attila the Han
@@terapeo2027 I thought the same 🤣 some random guy named atilla from han dynasty
Huns were of turkic origin.
Coin u showed at 0:45 most likely can be of Lord Rama……pls look that coin closely and think about it…… circle around Head plus Bow and Arrow plus all jewellery plus Dhoti at lower part of body
He is chandragupta ll . It is inscribed in the coin
Good information, but would love to hear in Hindi.
Will start a separate Hindi Channel in future.
Hun to gujjar hota ha
Were huns shaviks?
This pillar inscriptions are in what script?
Brahmi
Why hoons look so ugaly in their coins
to look fierce
Hepthalites
Huns are Tibetan people in Modern days.
Gupt are jat according to ..k.p jeswal and dr .dasrat sharma
Lol.. tomorrow some tamil will also claim that Guptas came from deep south and conquered north.
No reason why a Jat would move his capital more than a 1000 km to east.
Wanna know if rajputs were invaders
I don't think so. Most of the Rajput groups aren't greatly different from other groups genetically.
@@JayVardhanSingh Colonial historians and a group of indian historians led by bhandrakar did Claim rajputs were of hunic anscestry and huns converted to Rajputs after 7-8 century. But paramra rajput ruler sindhuraja [990 to 1010 ce ) have subjugated local huns rulers. This shows huns have their seperate identity even nearly 500 years after their invasiosn and rajputs are the descdants of the ancinet kshatriyas.
@@ayushkumarsingh3029 maybe that loxal hun Ruler retained his identity but other hunnic groups got the new names.
@@nav9005 that can never happen as indian varna system was rigidity and outsiders were not allowed. The hunnic origins of rajputs is a lie. My statement regarding manju parmara is enough to disprove it. Indian writers had the knowledge of ethnicity of tribes.
Rajputs name have their origins in rajaputra same as today chauhan is mediaeval chahmna .today parihar was prathiras .....
yashodharman king woh brahmin jat rajpoot tha .
koi source joh yeh kahta ki aulakara vanshi tha
some bhudhist bolte khastriyas koi word hi 14 th century se phle .
khatiya word har jagah .
Most Rajputs are decendanted from Huns.
Nope they are same genetically as rest of indians
Bro graduated from McDonald's 🤡
Rajput Mixbreed
LOL.... yha bahariyo ko malecch mana gya hai aur log kabhi bhi kisi bahari ko apni society ka hissa nhi bnne dete. Jab tak power hoti thi thik tha lekin uske baad Indian samaj mein videshiyo ka ghulna mushkil tha.