chandragupta ii was the last king of gupta dynasty.
who is the last king of gupta dynasty?
chandragupta ii
the fact that the kadambas cultivated marital ties with the imperial vakatakas and gupta dynasties attests to their power. kakusthavarma, the most powerful ruler of the dynasty whom inscriptions describe as "ornament of the kadamba family" and "sun among the kings of wide spread flame", gave one daughter in marriage to vakataka narendrasena and another to skandagupta, grandson of chandragupta ii of the gupta dynasty. historians trace their rise to political power through the examination of the contemporaneous sanskrit writing, "aichitya vichara charcha" by kshemendra, which quotes portions of a writing "kunthalesvara dautya" by the famous poet kalidasa. here kalidasa describes his visit to the kadamba kingdom as an ambassador where he was not offered a seat in the court of the kadamba king and had to sit on the ground. historians view this act as one of assertion by the kadambas who considered themselves equal to the imperial gupta dynasty.
political history of medieval karnataka
bullet::::- the early records of the gupta dynasty do not describe "gupta" as their family's name: it is possible that the family came to be known as gupta simply because the names of their kings bore the suffix "-gupta", or after the dynasty's founder gupta.





























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some scholars, such as s. r. goyal, theorize that the guptas were brahmanas because they had matrimonial relations with brahmanas:





























bullet::::- prabhavati-gupta, a daughter of chandragupta ii, married the vakataka king rudrasena ii, who was a brahmana.





























bullet::::- the kadamba king kakustha-varman, also a brahmana, married one of his daughters to a gupta king.
origin of the gupta dynasty