A fallacy has been created that the original empire of the Guptas existed in Magadha while all evidences - epigraphic, numismatic, and the Pauranic - go in favour of establishing the region of Eastern Uttar Pradesh as the original home of the Guptas.
T. R. Sharma, A Political History of the Imperial Guptas: From Gupta to Skandagupta
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