State · 320 – 550

Gupta Empire

A state of 320 – 550 — 230 years in South Asia. It replaced Kushan Empire, Kanva dynasty and Western Satraps and 2 more. It was replaced by Hephthalites, Pala Empire and Rashtrakuta Empire and 2 more. The atlas records 8 things within it — people 8. Its line of rulers holds 12 people, 9 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 230 years; 320 – 550
Rulers: 12; the Gupta emperor
Most ground: 2.50 million km²; in 410
Within it: 8; recorded rows

Map: Gupta Empire in 410, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Gupta Empire in 410, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.50 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Gupta Empire in 324, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Gupta Empire in 410, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

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

Bharshiva dynasty · replaces
Western Satraps · replaces · 35 – 405
Kushan Empire · replaces · 30 – 375
Mahameghavahana dynasty · replaces · 250 BCE – 500 CE
Kanva dynasty · replaces · 70 – 25 BCE

After it

Empire of Harsha · replaced by
Hephthalites · replaced by · 408 – 670
Pratihara dynasty · replaced by · 800 – 1036
Pala Empire · replaced by · 750 – 1174
Rashtrakuta Empire · replaced by · 753 – 982

Rulers

The line of Gupta emperor.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Ghatotkacha Gupta	280 – 319	39 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Chandragupta I	320 – 335	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Samudragupta	335 – 380	45 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ramagupta	380 – 380	under a year	ending not on record	child
Chandragupta II	380 – 415	35 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Kumaragupta I	415 – 455	40 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Skandagupta	455 – 467	12 years	ending not on record	child
Purugupta	467 – 473	6 years	ending not on record	sibling
Kumaragupta II	473 – 476	3 years	ending not on record	child

12 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 280 – 476. Median reign 15 years. 0 of 8 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”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

145,500 km² in 330, 1.01 million km² in 550; at its largest 2.50 million km² in 410. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

300 – 3992 rows

Samudragupta · ruler · 335 – 380
Kumaragupta I · ruler · 399 – 455

400 – 4995 rows

Aryabhata · scientist · 476 – 550
Chandragupta II · ruler · 400 – 500
Buddhaghosa · religious leader · 401 – 500
Skandagupta · ruler · 401 – 467
Narasimhagupta · ruler · 470 – 535

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 stood230 years
stood longer than 67% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,499,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 93% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
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 median15 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 49% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 7 causes the record names and 5 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.

in the articlelinked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 297 – 573, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 410, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q11774 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.