The Mighty Gupta Empire of India
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Witness the rise of the incredible Gupta Empire of India. As the armies of its kings Samudragupta and later Chandragupta II move across South Asia, the empire flourishes, boasting residential universities, monuments, and scholars who make lasting innovations in science and math. Then, like its frequent trade partner the Roman Empire, the Guptas come under the attack of nomadic armies called the Huns. A big thanks to @JayVardhanSingh for offering academic advice and guidance with this one-please check out his channel on Ancient Indian history!
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Can you do Bjorn Ironside / Ragnar Lotbrok, Leif Eriksson, and other famous vikings?
You are going to find a lot of unknown history ( even to indians & Hindus ) in the India office of British library London and all the records of East India company
I would also suggest you to do an episode on the storming of ghazni fort by East India company troops during the first anglo-afghan wars. They had won a series of battles against various tribes and kingdoms of Afghanistan but it's not told. You will find all the records as already foretold in the archives of East India company - British library and archives you'll have to locate.
Pls make a video on the Chola Empire ruled by RajaRaja chola and Rajendra Chola
Amazing! Can we have a future video about Skanderbeg, the Albanian medieval ruler who defeated the Ottomans and other powers like Venice for more than 25 times?
I like how he mentioned "steels" as an Indian product sent to west as trade, very less historical channels mention this that Ancient Indians had highest quality steels and were expert metalurgists in that era, some still existing like the Ashokan Stambhs/Pillars, weapons made up of wootz steel and many more.
Steel was first manufactured in India
Famous Damascus steel was actually from India.
There's oldest iron pillar without rust In Delhi
Europeans called it "Damascus steel" because they associated it with Saracen warriors from the Middle East, but it was actually an Indian smithing technique.
@@rankingresearchdata yes, that was made during the Gupta Period (during the reign of Emperor Chandragupta II). It was erected in Udaygiri, Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh but was taken to Delhi during either the reign of Maharaja Anganpala of the Tomara Dynasty or one of the foreign Delhi Sultanate rulers.
Samudragupta was the real GIGACHAD. He was:
1) Bold enough to unite the warring kingdoms and janapadas of the Gangetic Plain.
2) Intelligent enough to consolidate his power over the fertile Plain and make people realize that unity is strength.
3) Merciful enough to not kill his tributary kings.
4) not power hungry enough to incorporate every territory he crossed.
5) tolerant of other religions
6) an excellent military leader
7) an accomplished poet and musician
And yes, seven is the magic number.
Wasn't he undefeated also?
@@LOGICALGUY-jm5fu yes! He was undefeated.
@@sayandey4237 I got that from wikipedia.
He performed the ashvamegha sacrifice for that.
Indeed great !
I mean after he became undefeated not for becoming undefeated .Be careful!
Also don't take sacrifice as killing here.
The context ultimately do not refer to killing since sanskrit's translation to english often has many things to be understood with a teacher.
@@LOGICALGUY-jm5fu I know, there are so many misinterpretation happening when people are trying decode the facts from Sanskrit literary work.
@@sayandey4237 even logic will be defied if he kills the horse.
The same horse which has now become the symbol of sovereignty over others after one year because no one dared to challenge the authority of it will now be killed.
From one perspective it will only kill the symbol of sovereignty nothing else.
But I am open to interpretation if you could recommend another logic why he could be killed!
as an American I fucking love Ancient Indian History. So underrated, equal to if not surpasses, ancient greece or rome, or ancient china
If you go more back to ancient Indian history around 2500-3000 B.C , there was a massive Indian civilization named as the Indus valley civilization. The most scientific civilization ever.
Also in the ancient Indian University of Nalanda and Taxashila, people from all over the world including Chinese use to come and study there
@@DarthVader-no9cc The nalanda and taxashila were that time what MIT and oxford are today
Your comment shows you are new to history try to learn what these ancient civilizations like Greece, Rome or China used to call India then you will be surprised and understand who is equal and who is above.
Dang u made me feel so proud bruh.
"I will bring you down miserably into the jaws of a lion" Bro, watched it like 15 times such a smashing episode that was.
yeah bro, that was fire
Facts destroy your ramparts fill in your motes and come to us🫡
Time stamp where this was said please?
when was it said
@@hemanthp3610 mongol destruction of baghdad video
There is a saying in Telugu "Guptula yugam suvarna yugam" which translates "Gupta's period is Golden period"
Actually after Mauryans, it was the Guptas that were able to establish peace council with Souther Indian powers like Cheras, Pandyas etc
Even in in our Bengal region
@@siddharthsirvaiya3544 hmmm tbh Cholas ruled for a REALLY long time like Thousands of years, by best guess yes they must have been around and most probably might have been the biggest power in South India before Vijayanagara as my guess
@@RohanSharmacapchola ruled for 2400 years
@@bhupeshyoutuber5578 Imagine Chola Kingdom somewhere in Sindh/Punjab region in ancient India. They are not gona survive even for 50 yrs
As a Mexican Indian history is one of the most fascinating history
As an Indian, Mexican history is likewise interesting..
@@futiousstyles3315 thanks brother
Mexican Indian is such an unusual mix, but sounds so right lol.
@@liukiang8329 I know so one was going to call me out and why does it sound right
The similarities between mayan culture, deities & ancient hindu deities is astounding. For eg.: A statue of a monkey god carrying a mace discovered in amazon forest fully resembles hindu deity hanuman.
Some Indian historian says he fought almost 150 battles and got 100 scar but still undefeated
He was a great musician too 😊
My favourite king 😊
Our ancestors ❤
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My favorite is Akbar
@@Deepak_Dhakad No one asked
@@top5hindi919 no one asked to reply
Having 33% to 35% of world's GDP isn't a joke
The Indian gupta empire 🇮🇳🔥💪 India the golden bird then
Caste system, slaves for millennia, descendants of invaders are Brahmin masters, indigenous Indians are untouchable 🤣
@@alexhu5491"slaves for millenia"🤡
We were targeted due to our wealth only like all other civilization
Persia Egypt and their culture was destroyed by Arabs
Greek culture by Christian
We are the only one with completely same culture after so many invasion as we never give up fighting
Before Mughals
Selucide empire, hunnic empire all 3 arab caliphates and scythians and many other were trashed here
And Mughals too were defeated by Marathas at end
@@vanshbeniwal1662 Unable to accept reality this is your problem
@@vanshbeniwal1662 The descendants of Afghan and Pakistani invaders for millennia are masters Brahmins, indigenous Indians are untouchable, this is no secret 🤡
@@alexhu5491 Firstly, the Britishers made the so called "caste" system more RIGID. Secondly, he is right, India's global share of GDP was 32% BEFORE the islamic inavsions....
Bhagvad Gita 4.13 - 'The four categories of occupations were created by Me according to people’s qualities and activities. Although I am the Creator of this system, know Me to be the Non-doer and Eternal.'
COMMENTARY on Gita 4.13 👇
The Vedas classify people into four categories of occupations, not according to their birth, but according to their natures. Such varieties of occupations exist in every society. Even in communist nations where equality is the overriding principle, the diversity in human beings cannot be smothered. There are the philosophers who are the communist party think-tanks, there are the military men who protect the country, there are the farmers who engage in agriculture, and there are the factory workers.
The Vedic philosophy explains this variety in a more scientific manner. It states that the material energy is constituted of three guṇas (modes): sattva guṇa (mode of goodness), rajo guṇa (mode of passion), and tamo guṇa (mode of ignorance). The Brahmins are those who have a preponderance of the mode of goodness. They are predisposed toward teaching and worship. The Kshatriyas are those who have a preponderance of the mode of passion mixed with a smaller amount of the mode of goodness. They are inclined toward administration and management. The Vaishyas are those who possess the mode of passion mixed with some mode of ignorance. Accordingly, they form the business and agricultural class. Then there are the Shudras, who are predominated by the mode of ignorance. They form the working class. This classification was neither meant to be according to birth, nor was it unchangeable. Shree Krishna explains in this verse that the classification of the Varṇāśhram system was according to people’s qualities and activities.
Although God is the creator of the scheme of the world, yet he is the non-doer. This is similar to the rain. Just as rain water falls equally on the forest, yet from some seeds huge banyan trees sprout, from other seeds beautiful flowers bloom, and from some thorny bushes emerge. The rain, which is impartial, is not answerable for this difference. In the same way, God provides the souls with the energy to act, but they are free in determining what they wish to do with it; God is not responsible for their actions.
India was the first country to use Elephants in a war. Even Alexender got scarred when he saw a Elephant in a battlefield when he was trying to conquer India.
no coincidence that he was finally stopped at the indus.
You are wrong
Yea, he was scared of elephants from Bengal. I remember that 😂
@@syphernynx4186 what wrong!? He got scared seeing thousands of war elephant of dhanananda!
@@syphernynx4186 he lost in india, his army opposed him, he got hit, his horse got killed , his many commanders lost there lives and still they portrayed him as god of war! Persian army was large in number made of mercenaries no wonder they lost but in india he met an army equally capable who were fighting for their land against invaders(alexander). They would be completely destroyed if they choose to go on deep in india. And alexander while leaving india went from deserts and barren lands of india where he also fought many tribes and lost most of his army because if harsh weather and that to just to show world that he was not defeated in india 😌 and the truth was he sneaked out from india instead of ruling or building any memorial place like he did in Egypt and Persia this fact is enough to prove he lost. He was tyrant ruler who was not this kind as he was portrayed in the war with porus
India should be proud of it's history, a true boiling pot of cultures and people over the millennia.
Still the battles between the period of 636-1206 are not covered in detail.
UMMAYUDS CAMPAIGN IN INDIA,ABASSIDS ,GAZNI,GHURS.
ONLY SOME DEFEATS ARE TOLD WHEN THERE ARE VICTORIES ALSO OF INDIAN KINGS.
Kingdom of kaikan is no doubt the most powerful between 650-720
@@LOGICALGUY-jm5fu yes, The Indian were the only civilization along with the Byzantines and Franks to have stopped the Arab invasions. Apart from Sindh, Indian Empires prevented the Arab invasion of India for 300 years. It also took 200 years for the Turkic Ghazavid rulers to conquer Northern India and it took themanother 100 years to invade Southern Indian where they were quickly chased out. These same invaders conquered and ruled Persia, Anatolia, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, North Africa etc from almost 1000 years
@@dwarasamudra8889 The Byzantines also lost frequently many times.
The most area was lost by Persians.
I don't know how these so called great Powers got defeated steadfastly to Rashidun Calliphate.
Islam conquered nd converted whole middle east, turkey, egypt, persia nd central asia in only 50 yrs.
But the INDIAN resistance was such that it took 500 years just to reach DELHI after Sindh.
And also, ISLAMIC rulers were in partnership with the locals while always under constant attacks by other INDIANS.
Mind your own business.
Love India from Armenia
🇦🇲 ❤️ 🇮🇳
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Oi. We supporting you in war right now, too. ❤ From India
Armenia and India have a long history too...
Love Armenia from India two of the oldest countries in the world and countinous running civilisation.
We have a large Armenian population going back centuries. Love you too brother!
The war elephants are straight out of fantasy. Really awesome.
Battle of Gondor in Lord of the Rings 😂
@@noahblake533 Exactly
They became obsolete as soon as gunpowder got into use.
@@BigBrotherTheWatcher1984 gunpowder is obsolete by todays standards
@@BigBrotherTheWatcher1984 still the horses goes brrr. 😂
The Ashvamedha Yajna is mentioned even in Ramayana. After returning from war, Shri Ram had done this Yajna to establish his authority.
It's even in the beginning of Ramayana where Dasharatha performed it to get sons.
@@prasoonjha1816 stop lying he not performed ashwamedh yagya for sons,he performed fire yagya
@@prasoonjha1816 it was different yagya
it is mentioned in mahabharata too
@@GyanTvAmit I believe it's putrakameshti yadnya
Nalanda University was established during the Gupta Empire era and it held over 9 million books. People used to call this university one of the greatest universities at that time in Asia. Students from different parts of India, Tibet, China, the middle east/Persia (Iran, Iraq), Japan, etc used to come and do a residency at that time. Psychology, Arts, Science, Calculus, Bodha Lipi, Sanskrit, astrology, astronomy, medicine, etc used to teach here and the great library Dharmaganja consisted of three buildings called the Ratnasagara, the Ratnaranjak, and the Ratnodadhi, which alone was nine stories high. It was destroyed and burned much of its facilities at the beginning of the twelfth century by the Islamic invader Bakhtiyar Khilji. The munis/gurus/professors were burned, hanged on the street for days, and killed by this invader at that time. For more below is the reference.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_mahavihara
Fake it has no historic reference.
@@kingmaker2603 its not fake.
@@kingmaker2603 it's a well recorded event
What else you're going to say false
Leftist
@@kingmaker2603 what fake?
Do you wanna say nalanda University is fake?😂
It is even a UNESCO World Heritage site
Source -its page on Wikipedia
Where in details it is mentioned as UNESCO world heritage sites
Nowadays people call even accepted facts as fake
@@kingmaker2603 Mullah spotted. If you actually tried you can find references of it from ancient china and ancient Greece, probably even egypt and Mesopotamia. But you muslims were busy burning those books and raping children so you never noticed and now saying it never existed. Typical muslim behaviour
As an Indian, I'm so proud and thankful to you for covering the much underrated Indic history! So fkin excited lessgo!!!
You people are proud of each and every single time India is mentioned on the internet.
@@yj9032 if the white man doesn't want to be proud of himself then why do you care about the light brown swarthoids?
When you use the term Indic, are you referring to the genreal South-Asian subcontinent (modern day India, Pakistan & Bangladesh)?
@@adrianopandolfo what's South Asian Subcontinent? You guys are coining news terms Every single day. Its the Indian Subcontinent only
@Nation Matters lmao I'm just curious what indic means because using the term Indian for the subcontinent might create some political debates (like with the Persian/Arabian Gulf, and the Phillipine/South China Sea)
south-asians are "Indian" in the way that they were apart of the British Raj, but India itself as a unifying nationalism is a relatively new concept, because the various states and empires prior to the Raj conquered never fully unified the entire subcontinent.
*That was India's golden era - The gupta empire*
During Gupta empire India was ahead of china. It was after Islamic invasion when India lost its position to the Chinese.
Even then, We had More money in gold than the entire Western world combined.
China was a mess during gupta period. After the fall of gupta China was United under one (or 2) emperor to become center of world
India superpower soon brother
The Ashvameda (not sure if I spelled it correctly) ritual was a huge flex. This guy was not a gigachad he was THE GIGACHAD of his era.
Asvamedh sacrifice is one of key sacrifice of indo aryan warrior caste
@@Deepak_Dhakad thanks for the information brother. So, was the custom actually like it is depicted in the video?
I was fascinated because I've never heard of anything like that before.
@@mertyenen6711 well it's far more complex. Horse arrives after one year or more afterwards for more than one month many ritual ceremonies held by thousands of priests (Only those which r descendants of higher caste priests those who composed Vedic hymns in bronze age for aryan gods). After long period of various rituals and sacrifices , queen purify horse and priests kills him by suffocation then queen sleep with dead horse (to represent fake mating with horse) next day priests slaughters horse and meat offered to various aryan gods Most important Indra the god of thunder and heaven , Mitra, Ashwins (twin horse head gods, twin sons of Sun god Surya) etc.
@@mertyenen6711 last time, Asvamedh sacrifice was did my Rajput King Jai Singh II in early 1700s. I'm rajput myself. Asvamedh sacrifice dates back to 4000-6000BCE. Aryans migrated to india around 2000BCE , They brought here old Hinduism , sanskrit language. Reason why cows r sacred in india is because Aryans were pastroralists people from steppe grasslands of South Russia or central Asia. Horse and cows were sacred for them. Even ancient hindus around 1500-1300BCE used to sacrifice cows and horses to Dyaus pitra (sky father hindu god ). Indra , Surya etc all aryan gods and goddesses r his child. But later in medieval times some revolutions happened and animal sacrifice , beef eating etc became uncommon in most of Hindu sects.
Funfact:- Horses r equally or more sacred than cows.
@@mertyenen6711 thing is Hinduism is Only Indo European Religion which survived today. Romans , Greeks , Celtic , Baltic , Germans etc all left their Indo European Religion. But still we perform sacrifice to aryan gods. Dyaus pitra is still prevalent.
Oh man, this was epic.
UA-camrs need to start making more videos about Indian history. Their history is so epic and one of the oldest.
Imagine the tales they have.
Please do more on Indian civilisation and history.
Indian history is typically presented as a confusing mess of one invasion after another (said many years ago by a friend who read some of it). Videos like this go a long way towards remedying that by cohering around central influential periods
@@snedunuri2946 It is not a confusing mess if you begin with the ones that started it all, Aryans, Indus Valley Civilization, and Vedic Civilization in the north. The Sangam Age, and the Dravidians in the south.
@@shubhnamdeo2865 Aryans?
@@shubhnamdeo2865 Bruh just stop that aryan thing.
@@LOGICALGUY-jm5fu it's real
I hope he makes a video on the Khmer empire. Being Cambodian myself it would be amazing to see it illustrated with his way of rhetoric and visuals. I can already see a tapestry of ankor wat with a narration like “Once a thriving metropolis nature has reclaimed this gem of mysterious and forgotten empire, where now it stands as a monument of how quickly even mighty symbols of power can be transformed into something unrecognizable.” Chills just typing it 😁
Khmer. Where? Here
@@remcon559 What's funny is that they're actually spelled Khmai, not c'mere
Didn’t they kill millions of people? Pol pot I believe was his name.
On that another topic that really interesting is the Khmer relation with the chola dynasty which eventually leads to conflict with the Srivijaya
@@remcon559 cambodia
The Gupta Empire and the Sasanian Persian Empire had great relations, and the scientific advancements and ideas were shared between those two. Indian advancements in math, medicine, panchatantra, and board games like chess were imported by the Persians, and the Persian inventions in science, astrology, architecture and arts, music, chemistry, and physics were imported into India. It was only after the Islamic conquest of Persia that those things were adopted by the Arabs under the Abbasid Caliphate.
Arabs were also involved in trade with the Southern parts of India. According to some they might have come to trade even during pre islamic period. So they might also have got it through that connection.
@@hehehuhu I'm from Kerala(southern west coast) and yes all traders especially Arabs craved for spices and came here. Overtime especially since islamic times, they started settling and became a part of kerala
And from arabs through trade and specifically conquest of hispania, these inventions reached europe.
@@SetuwoKecik it reached italy by mostly just trade, and it was the renaissance that introduced science more into europe, by cordoba caliphate was also important
Chess was made in india during harrapan age. It's the oldest game in the world. There is a whole chess board found in harappan sites 😂
Indian history is criminally underrated and I would love to see more. But Sri Lankan history is mental and arguably just as interesting just because of how unique it is to the rest of South Asia.
Indian history is million times more complex
@@Deepak_Dhakad That’s because India is geographically and ethnically expansive and will obviously be more complex. I never said Indian history was ‘basic’. Its so interesting and rich, but Sri Lankan history is just as spectacular and unique in its own way and thing is no one over talks about bc they think its solely an extension of Indian history. Hope you understand :)
@@deelanaS yes
@@deelanaS i think it is a sin to separate the indian and sri lankan history, what is indian history is also sri lankan history and vice versa.
@@surajprakash3181 Definitely, Indian history and Sri Lankan history are throughly linked together & have had strong ties well before ancient periods, but wouldn’t you say Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan & Nepal have closer affinities with India? Maybe I am biased, as I am a Sinhalese Sri Lankan, but us being cut off from the rest of the subcontinent (including the Maldives) means we ended up developing our own version of an Indianized civilization that was unique to the rest of South Asia. Buddhism unfortunately fading in India meant Sri Lanka saw it self as being a great bastion of Theravada Buddhism which would go on to spread throughout South East Asia. Either way we are both brothers from similar yet unique cultures and age old civilizations.
India has a lot of mystery and mythology to it. I it find interesting the many cultures. My old best friend was half Indian, we'd hang out with his relatives and hit the Indian buffets along Devon Ave. In Chicago. Cool culture.
Half on father's side or mother's side. What was his other half?
@piyushjaiswal9283 mother is indian Vendanta sect. Father white Scottish background.
@@WestSideGorilla1980 is he on UA-cam or social media?
@piyushjaiswal9283 no he's not
Always they show Gupta empire small😡😡😡 it fought many battles and wars and it's peak size is 3.5 million sq km actually in Indian subcontinent.
Amazing Content, would love to see more Ancient & Mediaeval Indian empires.
1. Mauryan Empire - role of Chanakya in defeating Nanda & about Ashoka the Great.
2. Kanishka Kushan Empire
3. The Great Chola empire -Ruled South India & South east Asia.
4. Karkota Dynasty of North India - defended Kashmir for 200 years against Islamic kings
5. Sultanate & Mughal Rule.
6. The richest Vijaynagar Empire & its fall.
dont forget Sultanate and Rajj are independent at time and would attack other Rajj and dynasties together... it really depends who's fighting who and why.. as an Indonesian, I love learning about indian-pakistan(S/Hind region) history before the British rule, it's always fun to see how brothers are before hating each other
@@Azzam_Alqudsi hindusim doesn't have any hate for others but hindus are polystheic which are worst creation ever in quran 98.6
@@Azzam_Alqudsi i didn't say they were same, Indian kings even fought among themselves, despite many destruction of its heritage faced by the sub-continent under sultanate & Mughal some kings like Muhammad Tughlaq, Akbar, Shahjahan do added to Subcontinent heritage.
You forgot Maratha Empire. They are very important empire who on its peak spread from present day Pakistan to almost entirely of present India except North easter and parts of Southern India
@@kuku6116 Maybe Akbar and Shah Jahan can be considered Indians and did some level of good but none of the Delhi Sultanate rulers (including Muhammad bin Tughlaq) were good rulers; they were tyrants that even foreign Muslims like Ibn Batuta considered to be mental and excessively brutal. These rulers destroyed way more than they built.
Damned shame they don't teach this in high schools in America. Very rich history, very beautiful culture, sadly not that well known by Americans. Great job, keep up the great work. I'd pay you to do my biography
Americans cant even teach themselves about their own history, doubt most cares about other cultures' history
why would they teach Indian history in American schools? They don't even teach us about them in India much because of the education system.😂
@@PahadiSher exactly. I’m not sure why these people think all learning is the governments jobs anyways. Plus they did go over the basics in elementary school.
We dont learn about this even in india. L education system
Actually they don't even teach our rich history in india itself. Its filled with mughal n British Indian history completely. Showing indian history is filled with loosers mostly written by leftists after India's independence 🤦
Gupta period of India is known as Golden Age and it's zenith marked the true prosperity it once had.
Indians were master metallurgists in ancient times. But these days metallurgy is the key component that is holding back India’s defense sector.
I think it's much more than metallurgy
Are you referring to the engine blade metals?
Back in the day defense and war props were complete metallurgical and in todays era its mettwlurgy + mechanics + electronics
@@ariyanbhattacharjee597 agreed but I meant to say our current challenge is mainly metallurgy. We are quite good with electronics and avionics.
You guys keep saying Indian...It was not Indian it was Tamil, Indian wasn't even an ethnicity back then, it was specifically the Tamils in Tamil Nadu and Sri lanka who created the greatest steel known in the pre-modern world Wootz Steel that was imported out into the outside world and became known as Damascus Steel to Europeans, the smiths in Syria thanks to beneficial trade links that go back generations with the Tamils were trained by them to work it, no other country had that luxary and no other country could work with Wootz they could only purchase it, same with the Gupta and any other North Indian kingdom.
@@debodatta7398 blah blah blah more tamil kanging
The paintings prove this channel as one of the best history channel on UA-cam to this date. There's something so fascinating seeing custom picture created just for the topic at hand, and I love how they are portrayed through music, story telling, and atmospherically set up.
Much appreciated! If you want to hear more about the art process, check out our Q&A episodes on the Live tab
@@HistoryDose really? Definitely watching that.
Whoa Indians! Stopped invincible Greeks, broke Scithians into pieces, pushed away Parthians, braved Huns, broke Arabian blitzkrieg by stopping them for 300 years, didn't get wiped out in the Turkish flood, overthrew Turkish yoke time and again, humbled Mongoles . Last but not least, had the whole India reconquesta type liberated when Britishers came as uninvited guests.
This is a part of history I know very little about, but would love to learn more! Thank you for putting this together - amazing video as always :D
Thanks Strat! Always love seeing comments from you :)
@@HistoryDose please do sikh empire, king porus and rajput warriors
@@ajithsidhu7183 and why not jat warriors? why the bias against them?
@@sunilkumartehlan417 that as well like king porus
@@sunilkumartehlan417 it s no biased
They are just less known than these
Coz u know what congress govt did to our history texts
Eulogy to Licchavidauhitra (grandson of the Licchavis on his mother's side) Maharajadhiraja Samudragupta by his court poet Harisena describing the bravery and courage of his Emperor:
Of him (who) was skilful in engaging in hundreds of battles of various kinds, whose only ally was valour (parākrama) through the might of his own arm, and who (has thus) the epithet Parākrama (valourious), whose body was most charming, being covered over with the plenteous beauty of the marks of hundreds of promiscuous scars, caused by battle-axes, arrows, spikes (śaṅku), spears (śakti), barbed darts (prāsa), swords, iron clubs (tōmara), javelins for throwing (bhindipāla), barbed arrows (nārācha), span-long arrows (vaitastika) and many other weapons.
Licchavis were the major clan in the Vrijji Confederacy, no?
@@tonmoy1549 not last major clan, the foremost clan of Vrijji. But Samudragupta's mother was from the Nepali branch of the Licchavis.
The ancient history of India has always fascinated me. Thank you so much. Great video!
INDIA the only original Hindu civilization still alive after 2800 years of foreign invasions.
Otherwise look what happened to Sumer, Anatolia, persia, egypt, Maya, Inka, aztec.
Almost vanished.
We need Assassin Creed for Ancient India!!!
It's a shame that our history syllabus doesn't shed much light on our (Indian) ancestors and kings and Empires but rather teach about people who came to plunder our national
Well, they do. We know much about it but they can't make a novel on every dynasty in 5000 years of history
@@ShivanshuTyagi72981 but they can teach every islamic invader and britisher thoroughly with some sweet distortions🤡
The artwork in this video is amazing and so under-appreciated. It's rare to come across paintings or art depicting these early Indian empires.
Not sure the art work is accurate
@@RG-un2vl not sure if it is or isn’t, but I imagine most depictions of the ancient world aren’t
@@ABBZ120 there are many times very accurate descriptions....of the Gupta period Kalidasa poetry etc,literature is quite detailed
@@RG-un2vl Go visit Kailash temple
Awesome video, as always! Indian history is so rich, but equally unknown to many outside of it.
And I loved the inclusion of the speed-painting- I've always been curious how those amazing visuals are made!
Thanks! Joe and I talked about the art process in the latest Q&A if you’d like to hear more!
@@HistoryDose Fantastic! Checking it out ASAP!
it is even unknown to most of the Indians, thanks to marxist and leftist Distorians
The Wootz steel or Damascus steel( I don’t know why it is associated with Middle East) was originating in Southern India and was passed through the nation as the world class material for swords, Japanese traded with India for Wootz steel and it is even said while Britishers fought Indian in battles they would scavenge Indian tulwars or Swords and abandon their own, such was the quality of Indian swords
I have heard The Cholas use it
The reason why I am super excited is not only because of the fact that the video is about Indian history, which already is criminally underrated, but also because it is about GUPTA empire.
This empire is underrated of the underrated. Mauryans, Mughals, Rajputs, Marathas etc. have already been covered in detail and have featured in countless TV serials, movies etc. Guptas got nothing to their name.
This video is perhaps first proper attempt at UA-cam to bring the empire to the attention of international audience.
Hence, I am really thankful to History dose. I hope that in future you cover even more underrated empires from India.❣️
Well most Southern dynasties and empires are also underrated. Only recent years did cholas get some recognition
even Vijayanagar, Ahoms and Nepali Gorkhali Kingdoms arw underrated
And ironically, the Gupta Empire was the best among them all.
@@prasoonjha1816 Yea lol. Everyone cries about how Nalanda was lost, but they do not know where it came from. It came from this underrated Empire.
@@shubhnamdeo2865 yes, no one gives credit to King Kumargupta who built Nalanda.
The war elephants were specially trained killing machines. Sharp sword adorned their tusks and these elephants would throw the enemy upwards and wait for him to land on the sword. Alexander lost the battle to King Porus mostly due to war elephants and his battle-hardened soldiers
In Bahubali film, you can see a war elephant with thorns on its tusk.
The art in this video is absolutely stunning.
I love the art and music
Very excited for this.
This channel is like watching fine art with impressive storytelling. Feels like museum tour.
Thank you again
like a fantasy movie!
@@cristiani.lepindea8676 yes!!!!
Love for Indians from France 🇫🇷❤️
Tysm
India has to have the most interesting histories and amazing stories. 👏
Yes. Probably the only country which battled for nearly 2000+ years from Alexander to British empire and still survived with its civilization and culture must have great history..
Proud of having them as our ancestors ❤
Our empire was bigger
😂😂
You are from that family. What about life of 'untouchables'?
@@ananthapadmanabhan6340 there were no untouchables during Gupta empire
@@abhinavkumar9c017 There were.
That scene at 3:34 with the music is AMAZING. Absolutely fantastic work here, you guys deserve way more recognition!
Your choices of topics, your narration, the art, the ambient sounds are all perfect! On more than 1 ocassion I have used your videos in my AP World History class to better illustrate some historical peoples and events. Keep it up man!
Thanks! Cool to know it’s being used in some classrooms!
when he said that the Hunnic king didnt worship vishnu but instead shiva "the god of destruction", i got literal chills
Chill both are just superstitious cringe fictional characters of Hinduism nothing else so it doesn't matter
Mihirakula looks like one of my uncles 🤣
Vishnu is Shiva and Shiva is Vishnu. If you understand their roles, then Vishnu and Shiva merge into each other.
Shiva should be termed transformer. He awards death to transform that energy to nothingness. Blackhole sounds familiar ? Shiva meaning one that is not.
As an South African it was nice to learn about Gupta's other than the ones that so damaged my country with corruption and theft 👍
🤣 🤣 That was funny
Not the same thing.
The empire reffered themselves as gangetic king of kings.
Its the british that gave them this name. But gupta is used by even mauryan rulers.
Interesting how more than a millennium later a European monarch would receive the title 'The Samudragupta of Europe'.
I hope you'll explore more of South/Southeastern Asian historical topics. These are very underrated areas and deserves some much needed wider audience. Might I propose King Naresuan of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and the formation of the Tai hegemony.
Subcontinent asia is completely different from south east Asia.
@@swasg3129 that's why we need more coverage before the limited knowledge are lost... some script like the Jawi script and Balinese script are still preserved today, but with time, it can be gone
i mean let's check out some Hindu and Buddhist warfare in Pre-colonized Indonesia, like it's very cool how it stopped and reconciliate
@@Azzam_Alqudsi don't care about south east Asia, I'm not from there. This video is about subcontinent
@@swasg3129 Indian kings were in South East Asia as well...there were hindu kingdoms
@@swasg3129 why the hell u have to be so disrespectful.
South Asia has huge influence on southeast Asia.
Read about cholas, pallavas, Khmer, srivijayas etc.
Golden period of india❤
bruh, even the Palas of Bengal had glorious times in the past. THey controlled the entire northern plains.
Bharat have many powerful kingdoms ...🙂 No more hate and discrimination
@@shubhankardasgupta4777 Under educated Bangladeshi, voter of mumtaj begum.
@@shubhankardasgupta4777 pala capital was munger they were bihari empire
As per historian's Gupta period clamed as golden period of india because in that time india new high in mathematics, science and astronomy and king chandragupta 2 (Vikramaditya) established nalanda University at that time
Aryabhatta also exists in Gupta period
Yet again, another beautifully narrated story of history, coupled with equally vivid and breathtaking illustration. Well done.
I heard something about the Gupta in Universal History class in high school here in Mexico, but with your video I learned more on this interesting episode of Human history. I'll go to check more on the empire. Thank you!
Guptas eradicated scythians nd white HUNNS.
Two Gupta kings ie SAMUDRAGUPTA nd SKANDAGUPTA were even known as SHAKARI nd HUNNARI means the annihilatior of SHAKA(scythians) nd HUNN.
@@aaryan_B055 yaaaas baby
Indian history is typically presented as a confusing mess of one invasion after another (said many years ago by a friend who read some of it). Videos like this go a long way towards remedying that by cohering around central influential periods
Where did your friend read this from?
@Sai-ns9ky here's my cartoon description of Indian history:
2500 BC - indus Valley civilization
1500 BC - Aryan migration (not invasion)
300 - 200 BC - mauryan empire
200BC - 5th C- invasions
5th C - 7th C- Gupta empire
7th C - 16th C - invasions
16thC - 18thC - mughal empire
19thC - 20C - British empire
1948 - present - modern india
@@snedunuri2946 You are wrong
Till 10th century it was pratihara empire in north and Rashtrakutas in south
Yes there were invasions before and after Gupta but they all failed
They only succeeded in 1192. It was pratihara empire
And even in 12 to 18th century south indian dynasties were still undefeated
@@snedunuri294618th century that was maratha Empire
And even during 13th to 16th century tughluqs were the only sultanat to rule most of the india and khiljis in the north
At other time there were other powerful empires and those invaders were in smaller area
True those are just made up propoganda to show india in low light so others don't get influenced by india and it's culture
After seeing this video I really wish to see in the future an assassin's creed set in India during the Gupta empire, seems so fascinating and would make a perfect setting for an ac game
That’d be amazing!
But indians forgetting their own beautiful history alot of indians even don't know who was legendary emperor samudragupta 😢😢
The Mauryan Empire is more inspiring and was much more expansive than Gupta's. The architecture that developed in Gupta Empire gave rise to an whole new era in Indian's architecture.
Still the Gupta period is known as the golden age of Indian civilization
The Gupta Emperors were very well aware of the Mauryan Emperors. They largely modelled their empire on the Mauryan empire, even copying Mauryan state emblems like the Lion Pillars.
@@dwarasamudra8889 Samudragupta named his son Chandragupta in honor of the 1st Mauryan king. Gupta empire is the golden age but Mauryan empire is special because it emerged as a defence against the invading greek forces - Alexander, a brainchild of Chanakya brought to reality by his disciple Chandragupta Maurya to safeguard the people, culture and religion of Bharatvarsha against foreign forces. Imagine if we had someone like that in the 1700s when Brits arrived or in the 1300s when Mughals were in full force. There is no competition. Both empires did what they could to preserve and advance the culture of this land in their own capacity and anyone who pitches them against each other is only a fool.
Foreigners take more interest in learning Indian history than most Indians do 😭
Indians believe in fictional history of Mythology
@@Roachh2877Nonsensical humans dusbelive any ancient history.
Indians have been brainwashed by Gandian non-violence ... Ancient Indians were were warriors...rise up.
Nah
@@Roachh2877 abrahamic believers like u , are delusional which is undeniable
Your content is not only super informative, but it's also incredibly engaging and fun to watch.
That's why I'm kindly requesting more videos on Indian history. There's just so much to explore and discover, and I know you guys would knock it out of the park with whatever topics you choose.
This is sick brother. Never witnessed anything like this. Not only the graphics were astonishing but the facts too. They were to the point. Kudos to your work. Keep it up. Imma share this to everyone.
Gupta kingdom was based on Emperor and Vassals States system.
So it was bigger than you showed.
yes, Gupta Empire covered the entirety of Northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Samudragupta also conquered the entire eastern coast up to Kanchipuram but they were not made direct provinces, just vassals. The Guptas also defeated the Kushans and made them vassals, thus making eastern Afghanistan under indirect Gupta rule. The Vakaktaaks of Central India were basically under Gupta control too from Chandragupta II due to his daughter Prabhavatigupta becoming Queen there. The Guptas also had marriage alliances with the Kadambas of Southern Karnataka but they probably didn't have much political influence there.
Most legendary Hindu Emperor
Krishnadevaraya
Mihirkul
@@netaji-thebritishslayer nah, there were greater kannadiga rulers than krishnadevaraya like Amoghavarsha Nriputunga, Krishna I, Govinda etc of the Rashtrakutas, Vikramaditya and Someshwara IV of the Kalyani Chalukyas,
@@dwarasamudra8889 pulakeshi
GORKHA 🇳🇵🙏
Truly, the might of the Indian empires was unbelievable. And no shocking that this was because of the teachings & values of the Sanatan Dharma. With due respect for all religions. But I'm proud to be an Indian and a Sanatani. There are 1000s of more tales, stories and epics originating from the acient India history. They are remarkable and I'd love to collect information on them.
And lastly, kudos to History Dose. You've done a brilliant job making this video!
This is eye-opening video for all North Indians about how the so called marathi, Dravidian fascists pretending themselves as Indian nationalist try to suppress Golden age of India (North Indian history) to glorify their history !
You guys keep saying Indian...It was not Indian it was Tamil, Indian wasn't even an ethnicity back then, it was specifically the Tamils in Tamil Nadu and Sri lanka who created the greatest steel known in the pre-modern world Wootz Steel that was imported out into the outside world and became known as Damascus Steel to Europeans, the smiths in Syria thanks to beneficial trade links that go back generations with the Tamils were trained by them to work it, no other country had that luxary and no other country could work with Wootz they could only purchase it, same with the Gupta and any other North Indian kingdom. also wtf are you talking about Golden age of India was under south Indian empires, North India was ass deep by Muslim conquerers for 1000 years lmao Hindians watched as their wives and daughters took arabs/turks and persians
@@debodatta7398 BonGoLi kangalis 🐻 should keep their mouth shut, their @$$ were beaten hell by Muslim invaders even before North India was conquered by Islam invaders let by jalaluddin khilji in 1200s who can't win a single war against them, North Indian King were continuously defeating Muslim invaders for 400 years, and those pathetic coward South Indian kings can't withstand the first Islamic conquest let by alauddin khilji, from Maurya empire to Harshvardhan no one even dared to thought about invading Aryavart for 1000 years, had 33 % global GDP, best education al, economical, military etc institutions even sensible madrasis 🫥 also came to seek knowledge ! Read before commenting thrash ! Typical sh|t Bengali mind caused by the Bengali ritual of s\ut pregnancy
Pali language
This empire is very underrated from perspective of mathamatical history.
Gupta dynasty had built great nalanda university which gave birth to computational methods for zero, negative, hindu-arabic numerals and modern trigonometry sine function.
Vedic-avasta is correct word not hindu-arabic. For your kind information. Hindu is word used for non-muslims.
Not hindu-arabic but vedic numerals.
Loved this video! Stunning art from Joe, he's a great artist himself! And brilliantly written and narrated by Chris as usual. Thankyou for another magical journey back in time guys!!
A decent video on the Gupta dynasty.
Many people make video on ashoka saying he is the greatest or whatever.
But It was Samudragupta.
That's what I always tell the people that the samudragupta was the greatest conqueror of India. He reached deep south and also to Afghanistan he further pushed into the northeast region. Ashoka got most of the territory from his father while samudragupta conquered it by himself
Samudragupt was better conqueror but overall Samrat Ashok is greatest in south asian history. Even u can his influence everyone. Indian national emblem is itself Ashok stambh. He is like father of india
@@Deepak_Dhakad yes that's what I'm saying that samudragupta was the greatest conqueror
@@Deepak_Dhakad Ashoka never fought any war except the Kalinga war,in that too he suffered massive casualties and caused the normal citizens of Kalinga to suffer.
He wasted The royal treasury by sponsoring useless Buddhist missionaries and converting Hindus into Buddhists. Ashoka was the reason that started the decline of the Mauryan Empire.
Where as Samudragupta conquered 20 kingdoms , 18 forest kingdoms, because of these extensive conquests of Samudragupta 14 tribal or frontier kingdoms accepted the Gupta suzerainity.The kidarite Hunas who were initially paying tributes to The Sassainid persia became A tributary state of the Guptas.The kushans were also forced to become a vassaal of Gupta's . Sri Lanka was also a vassal state of The Gupta's. Inspite of These massive and destructive conquests , Gupta era became The Golden age of India. All these happened Under Samudragupta.
Goi adopted The Ashok stambh and Ashok chakra because ashoka renounced violence ( a lie) . The illiterate politicians did not knew anything About other Empires except that of Mauryans.
@@avik4343 lol 😂. Samrat Ashoka is father of bharatvarsh.
And his grandfather conquered more land than any other indian king ever did. Guptas conquered tiny kingdoms meanwhile Samrat Chandragupt maurya conquererd Powerful Nanda empire.
Those Buddist missions were successful. Sri Lanka , South east asia and later Kushan empire etc all inherited budhhism of maurya empire. Tell me which historian said maurya empire declined under Asoka, saying out of air?
Asoka was first person to introduce stone architecture in India. Indian art and architecture completely changed since rule of Asoka. And maurya empire was far more bigger and biggest in south asian history
Can’t believe I just found your channel. This is amazing stuff! I’ve become interested in Indian history lately and this is perfect. Now to binge your other content.
Indian culture and history is amazing.
he was such a badass king!! he conquered everything and was a great ruler,all of this is fine...but musician?!! dude!!
What's wrong with that?
Yes, he was possibly a musician. Samudragupta's sandhivigrahika (minister of war and peace) Harisena's Prayag prashasti (eulogy) describes Samudragupta as a muscian and this is supplemented by gold coins in which he is shown playing veena.
@@Akash-tl6rm yess!! Just love him! There's something called sarvagun sampann...guess he's that!
As always such amazing content! Thanks for another great video.
This man drops the most cool and aesthetic history videos, which are as informative as creative they are. Great work! Keep going!! ❤
Thanks! New video tomorrow!
3:40 The Ashvamedha Yajna was a horse sacrifice ritual of Vedic Aryan. It was used by ancient Indian kings to prove their imperial sovereignty: a horse accompanied by the king's warriors would be released to wander for a year. In the territory traversed by the horse, any rival could dispute the king's authority by challenging the warriors accompanying it. After one year, if no enemy had managed to kill or capture the horse, the animal would be guided back to the king's capital. It would be then sacrificed, and the king would be declared as an undisputed sovereign.
Samdurgupta 😍
its not sacrifice,its like leaving horse to move freely to capture other's territory,english vocabulary have less words to describe sanskrit word meanings
@@GyanTvAmit Brother, I have read the Vedas and according to the Vedas, horses were sacrificed in Ashwamedha Yajna.
@@IndoAryan Hi bro ☺️
@@IndoAryan no sacrifice means not killing in vedas,Horses were not killed, they were released, if someone caught them, they had to fight.
This was fantastic to watch, thank you!
I look forward to you potentially doing an episode on a south Indian power, like the Cholas, the ancient Tamil kings, or Vijayanagara.
Absolutely amazing video as always, keep up the hard work!
Love the art work and the sound effects, this was epic, thanks for the video ❤
Will love to learn more about Indian history....really thankful for your channel.....have taught me more about history than the schools....patiently waiting for more content ❤❤
Fantastic video. Amazingly well done thank you so much for this
Amazing video. Loved your work. Truly awesome.
Simply the best history channel on UA-cam, incredible that it’s the work of only two men, let alone brothers
one can only imagine the harrowing imagery of the battlefield, with war elephants stamping their way through infantry, and cavalry rushing and slicing through formations
Damn, the video was a movie in itself! Visually grand, relating to the grandeur of the Gupta dynasty. As an Indian, I absolutely loved the video! Thank you!
Insanely good vid. Loved the mention of Zero!
This was amazing! Great video as always
The thing I love about this channel, other than the great art style and the amazing story telling, is that it’s videos are very diverse in subject matter and cover all sorts of different time periods and nations.
This episode of the Gupta Empire of India is top level the art and the storytelling is very good, I honestly can't wait until they touch ancient greek or macedonian greek which ever comes first i know its somewhat a boring part of history, but one day I do like to see the Greeks in the amazing art style this channel has its really cool man
The quality of the video is unmatched. Amazing job. Loved it.
Man this is amazing, breathtaking, the level of story telling and the images you used are so beautiful , would love to see more of your work on ancient India
Kudos to you and your team
May God bless you
You inspired me to also make short animated history videos like the Gold Rush of the Wild West!
Thank you History Dose
Chess was originated in 6th century in India 🇮🇳 gupta Empire period when a battle was held and the prince died in that war, after outcome of that king decided to invent a game, through some mathematician, minister and scholar invents the boards and piece and it called chaturanga modern day chess !
As always much appreciated on the knowledge and quality. Much respect gents ✊🏾✌🏾
Looking foward for more videos like these !
The fact that you mentioned the loss of malleability ( Internal mobility too ) in caste shows how well researched this is .
Also not fun fact Khilji islamic extremist burned Nalanda which had 9 million books, it's said that it took around 6 months to completely burn.
So much of our history got destroyed bcz of ego selfishness, it's really sad.
The artworks are just so fantastic! Makes one nostalgic for a period that is so far back in the past! Glad to have crossed paths with this channel..
Absolutely fantastic video as usual. You cover such fascinating topics and characters. Long may these continue
It’s really unfortunate what India has been reduced to after centuries of invasion and plunder
Thanks to m0sl3ms and brits
As an Indian, I loved this video so much! I really hope a video about the Chola Dynasty is on the cards too!
Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you for this 😊😊
That vid was phenomenal. Amazing work!
Top 3 Settings for Assassin's Creed India -
1. Mauryan Empire
a. Alexander army loses motivation and will in India.
b. Got to meet "Chanakya", the master(Guru) of Mauryan emperor(s). The GREAT master strategist, economist, diplomat, security advisor and creative assassination techniques he had.
c. Got to see the biggest Empire ever in India after British Colony.
d. Got to see most area from Northwest (Takshashila) to East (Patliputra) to South (Kalinga etc.) .
But it will be bit like Origins somewhat lacking true Parkour type locations (AC2, AC1, ACUnity)
2. Gupta Empire
a. Got to see popular astronomers, mathematicians.
b. Great architecture and decent parkour location.
c. Basically everything you expect from Golden Era.
d. Might see Central part of India.
3. Ranjit Singh's Empire (Sikh Empire)
a. Great for AC type cities for parkour.
b. It might be like Syndicate or Unity in terms of Weapons.
c. Might only see North Western part of India.
The last descendant of Sikh Empire was in AC Syndicate too. (But here, it's for Early period of the Empire)
One more would be Maratha's under the reign of Aurangzeb