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Ramagupta (around~ late 4th century CE), according to the Sanskrit play Devichandraguptam, was an emperor of the Gupta dynasty of northern India. The surviving fragments of the play, combined with other literary evidence, suggest that he agreed to surrender his wife Dhruvadevi to a Shaka enemy: However, his brother Chandragupta II killed the Shaka enemy, and later dethroned him, marrying Dhruvadevi. The official Gupta genealogy does not mention Ramagupta, and therefore, the historicity of the Devichandraguptam narrative is debated. Several other sources refer to the events mentioned in the play, but these sources do not mention Ramagupta by name, and may be based on the play itself.  Many years ago, three passages of the lost play, the Devi-Chandragupta of Vishakhadeva (generally identified with the playwright Vishakhadatta), were found in a manuscript of Bhoja’s Shrin-gara-prakasha, while six passages were found in a manuscript of Ramachandra and Gunachandra’s Natyadarpana. Taken...

Debunking The myth of the So-called "Puras(forts)" in RigVeda, which According to Parpola was in BMAC where forts in circular shapes were found, the shape described in the early parts of the Rigveda as the enemy forts of Indra.  Parpola (1988) extracts the Rgvedic verses where Indra, the purandara 'fort-destroyer' is active in the destruction of the ninety-nine or hundred puras 'forts' of his enemies, the Dasas. Based on a verse from the Satapatha Brahmana (6.3.3.24-25), and drawing on the work of Wilhelm Rau, Parpola proposes that a significant feature of these forts is that they are tripura, or have a threefold structure Parpola takes this to mean not only that the forts are surrounded by concentric circular walls but also that the forts themselves are circular in construction. Divodasa's chief enemy, Sambara, possessed a hundred (or ninety-nine) forts and was said to have resided in a mountainous domain. This, according to Parpola, could have been Bactr...

The meaning of the term " Itihasa". The Ramayana is one of the largest ancient epics in world literature. It consists of nearly 24,000 verses (mostly set in the Shloka/Anustubh meter), divided into seven kāṇḍas:- " 1. ‘Bala Kanda’ (Book about Youth),  2. ‘Ayodhya Kanda’ (Book about Ayodhya),  3. ‘Aranya Kanda’ (Book of the Forest),  4. 'Kishkindha Kanda' (Book about Kishkindha),  5. ‘Sundara Kanda’ (Book of Beauty),  6. ‘Yuddha Kanda’ (Book about the War) 7. ‘Uttara Kanda’ (Book about the Sequel)  It belongs to the genre of " Itihasa ".  The The Sanskrit term  इतिहास  was derived from the phrase  iti ha āsa   इति ह आस , which means "so indeed it was".  There is a debate Regarding our Ancient epics since colonial period, that whether these texts contains history or Just Mythological & Fictional stories of legendary characters. Some argue these are Historical documents, Some argue mythical Whereas others prefer it...