What is Gupta Empire?
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox Former Country | conventional_long_name = Gupta Empire | common_name = Gupta Empire (Dynasty) | era = Classical India | year_start = {{Circa|240}} | year_end = {{Circa|579}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/goyal-1967/page/367/mode/1up|last=Goyal|first=SR|page=367|title= History of the imperial Guptas}}</ref> | status = [[Empire]] | p1 = Western Satraps | p2 = Nagas of Padmavati | p3 = Pañcāla | p4 = Arjunayanas | p5 = Yaudheya | p6 = Mahameghavahana dynasty | p7 = Murunda dynasty | p8 = Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom | s1 = Later Guptas | s2 = Kingdom of Valabhi | s3 = Vardhana dynasty{{!}}Kingdom of Thanesar | s4 = Gurjaradesa{{!}}Gurjara kingdoms | s5 = Aulikaras | s6 = Maukhari Dynasty | today = {{Plainlist| *[[India]] *[[Pakistan]] *[[Bangladesh]] *[[Nepal]] *[[Afghanistan]]}} | image_map = File:Gupta Empire at peak.jpg | image_map_caption = {{center|1=Map of the Gupta Empire {{Circa|420 CE}}, according to Joseph E. Schwartzberg, with contemporary polities<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schwartzberg |first1=Joseph E. |title=A Historical atlas of South Asia |date=1978 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |page=[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=182 145, map XIV.1 (j)]; [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=062 p.25] |isbn=0226742210 |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=182 |access-date=12 February 2022 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224162023/https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/s