
The Gupta Empire: Mathematics, Literature and a Classical Age, c. 320–550 | Calm Bedtime History
In the fourth century, beside the broad rivers of northern India, Chandragupta I and his successors began to gather a new empire around Magadha and the Ganges plain. Two centuries later, mathematicians were measuring the heavens, poets were shaping classical Sanskrit drama, and armies from Central Asia were pressing into the north-west.
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