State · 1434 – 1541
Gajapati Empire
A state of 1434 – 1541 — 107 years in South Asia. It replaced Eastern Ganga dynasty. It was followed by Mughal Empire and Bhoi dynasty. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 107 years
- 1434 – 1541
- Rulers
- 4
- the emperor
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Eastern Ganga dynasty · replaces · 1078 – 1434
After it
- Bhoi dynasty · followed by
- Mughal Empire · followed by · 1526 – 1857
Rulers
The line of emperor.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapilendradeva | 1434 – 1466 | 32 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Purushottama Deva | 1467 – 1467 | under a year | ending not on record | child |
| Hamvira Deva | 1472 – 1476 | 4 years | ending not on record | |
| Prataprudra Deva | 1497 – 1540 | 43 years | ending not on record |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1434 – 1540. Median reign 18 years. 1 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood107 years
stood longer than 48% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median32 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 86% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 4 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 107
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1423 – 1552, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1488, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q79655 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.