Before watching this video, please watch these videos. It will help to understand the argument better. Chandragupta II's struggle With Ramagupta ruclips.net/video/WhdSdYecUxM/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh Chandragupta II's expedition beyond Hindu Kush ruclips.net/video/0ImPPhaoNeY/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh Chandragupta II's conquest of Western Kshatraps ruclips.net/video/bV13l5MpbTc/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
Bro I think you should make history videos like Kings and generals, historymarche who cover important battles, kingdoms with it's history. You already have great knowledge, if you can add some animations it'd be perfect👌✨
Chandragupta II = Justinian Western Kshatrapas = Ostrogoths Gujrat= Italian Peninsula It's "desi gothic war", took time, emptied war treasurery, tired the Gupta army and kept it away from conquering western India.
Hey Jay, I’m really liking ur videos… You have unique way telling the story. Just a request, can u cover the Rise and Fall of Empires which ruled North and South in chronological order from 1 AD.
Thank you. Thanks for this suggestion as well. I would try to make this type of a video but first I will cover the history of these Empires/Kingdoms separately. As you can imagine producing this kind of video would take quite a bit of work.
@@JayVardhanSingh Yeah bro I agree! It’s a lot of work… Also another question which I had was how did these great kings manage their logistics and found the accurate routes from North to South or East to West when they went on a military campaign!! Can you make a video on this when u have time? Thanks a lot for the reply 😊
I've made two video that covers this. Here's the link ruclips.net/video/sR_cX3Kp2TM/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh ruclips.net/video/Hsd8IN8LWWs/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
I really would like a video from you contrasting the military capabilities in the form of 2nd rung leaders of Western armies and Indian armies. One of the glaring contrasts that I find after reading world history is that in Western armies, credit and mention of many generals are made, who could win wars independently. For example, Alexander's wars easily mention about 30 generals including their children, who he could send out simultaneously in different directions on separate battles. This resulted in Alexander himself leading battle in only NINE instances and winning all of them. Similarly, the Romans, even during the Republican times, they had several famous generals and they had a bench strength to conduct simultaneous battles in different directions against different enemies. Take for example, Marius & Sulla & Julius Caesar's civil war followed by Augustus & Agrippina and many more. I don't find any such famous generals in Indian accounts. It only returns in Indian history AFTER the Islamic invasions with the most famous being Khilji's 3 generals & Malik Kafur.
Nice videos sir I am history student currently doing graduation form Jaipur and your videos are helping me a lot to cover my ancient Indian history syllabus. But sir I have a request for you that can you make the similiar kind of videos on modern history too.
Thanks Bhai. I've tried to look into the Gupta-Sassanid relations but I didn't find anything worth making a video on. If you can suggest some books/articles that would be great. Although I will talk about the Gupta-Sassanid relation in the Hunnic invasion video. About the Chalukyas and their relation with the Guptas. I'll try to include this topic in the video on the Chalukyas.
@@JayVardhanSingh uh well if you have Instagram you check this post… it was about Shahenshah Bahram and Chandragupta II working together against hunas. And also Khosrow II and The Maukhari dynasty and Chalukya king Pulakeshin II.. please make video on Them Jay bhai 🙏🏽
Will you make videos on the arab conquest of the Indian subcontinent? The resistance provided by the Hindus of Afghanistan and the Brahman dynasty of sindh. On how their expansion was halted by lalitaditya muktapida, bappa rawal and mihir bhoj. Also what do you think about lalitaditya's alleged campaigns? Did he really march as far as the Caspian sea? I personally believe he must have went at least as far as Afghanistan and other parts of central Asia. What do you think? Hoping that you'd reply.
His claim of attacking the chinese region is also claimed to be a folklore. The western most part would be the eastern ends of the central asia. Border area of modern day Tajikistan , Afghanistan, Pakistan and china. So Caspian sea is off the charts.
@@prateekrai6260emperor Chandragupta 2 invaded balkh and defeated huns and persians there(source iron pillar inscription of mehrauli and kalidas raghuvamsa)
Quite frankly this seems to be countering one hypothesis with little substantiating evidence with another hypothesis with little substantiating evidence. If there's little evidence to suggest that Chandragupta - II could've mounted an invasion of the NW, there's equally limited evidence to suggest that he couldn't. Why exactly are you supposing it was an either western provinces vs NW of the Indian sub continent just on the basis of a section of historians reporting that Chandragupta - II was busy pacifying the Western provinces without offering any evidence in support of your hypothesis is beyond me ! Goel himself seems to be working with the benefit of retrospective vision. FYI - post the Arab conquest of Sindh & Southern Pakistani Punjab while the Gurjara Prathiharas were successful in repeated campaigns repelling the Arab attempts to invade Rajasthan, they made no such attempts to push them out of their strongholds in Sindh & Southern Pakistani Punjab. It could well stand to reason that the tripartite struggle kept the Gurjara Prathiharas occupied throughout their existence eventually sapping the energy & vitality of both their empires viz the Gurjara Prathiharas & the Rashtrakutas thanks to their exertions with both having collapsed in around the same time. Yet no historian explains why didn't the Gurjara Prathiharas move northwards to the Indian part of Punjab into what's now NW Pakistan into Afghanistan & down South towards southern Pakistani Punjab & Sindh to take control of the silk route in Afghanistanto extending to the Middle East & beyond & the ports in Sindh - another lucrative source of trade instead of wasting their energies over the tripartite struggle for Kannauj.
I don't think that is the case. There's enough evidence to suggest that the conquest of the Western Kshatrap took a long time to complete. I also believe that in the initial part of his reign, he wasn't in a position to mount an expedition in either North-West or in Gujarat. It was only at the close of his reign that he was able to start the Shaka campaign. There is numismatic evidence to suggest that this invasion happened at the close of his reign. Please watch my earlier video. Considering all of this evidence, I would argue that there was no time and resources left for Chandragupta II to conquer the North-West. We should also take into consideration that some scholars believe that the conquest of the Western Kshatrap was completed during the reign of Kumaragupta. But yes, this is my hypothesis. It is entirely justified of you to reject it.
@@JayVardhanSingh You misunderstood. I'm neither accepting nor rejecting your hypothesis. You clearly stated in this video that he launched his Western India campaigns half way thru his reign. Then you go on to reject Goel's hypothesis by suggesting that " some historians have claimed that Chandragupta - II completed his conquest by the end of his reign" which obviously didn't leave him enough time to focus on the NW assuming he was interested in the NW to begin with. When you base your entire hypothesis on just one premise don't you think you ought to substantiate / elaborate on why that section of historians came to the conclusion that Chandragupta - II actually took so long to accomplish his task & marshall the evidence they offered in support of such a claim ? Now you're adding that these conquests were finally completed during Kumargupta's reign. This merely compounds the confusion. Don't get me wrong. You're doing a fine job with your presentation covering little known aspects of ancient Indian history in some depth & are actually one of the few channels producing quality content. Hence, in my humble opinion fwiw, is that you ought to set a higher standard or at least be held to a greater degree of accountability than the rest out here . Had this been the case with any of the other channels I wouldn't even bother to complete the video & would have moved on the minute it became obvious that there was no supporting evidence to back the hypothesis. It's just honest feedback. Hope it's taken in the right spirit.
@I C Thanks for this clarification. I think there's confusion here. In my earlier video on the conquest of Western Kshatraps, I have provided the evidence (numismatical and inscriptional). I didn't repeat the same argument here. I was assuming that people would've already watched those videos. The initial period of Chandragupta II's reign and his expedition beyond the Hindu Kush is also covered in another video. Here're the videos. ruclips.net/video/0ImPPhaoNeY/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh (Chandragupta II's expedition beyond Hindukush) ruclips.net/video/bV13l5MpbTc/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh (Chandragupta II's conquest of Western Kshatraps) About Kumaragupta's history, I came to know about this after publishing my video on the Shaka conquest. I am merely suggesting that there's also this view.
@@JayVardhanSingh Thanks for your response. This shall be my last post on the subject for any more correspondence on my part would be pedantry & nit picking. I've just seen those videos . I don't think you've quite grasped what I was seeking to articulate. My statements were regarding 2 issues namely : 1.) How do we know for sure whether Chandragupta -II actually intended to conquer the NW especially after he launched a campaign there before his invasion of the Western parts of India held by the Shakas? He could've well extended those raiding campaigns into the NW into a war of conquest. We know for sure he didn't. Whether it had to do with logistics or the topography or the fact that even if he pacified that territory , retaining control over it would sap up much of his resources, we can't say. 2.) Related to this is the question of why didn't he focus on the NW post his conquest of the Western parts of India. The earlier videos certainly confirm he couldn't do so as the conquest of the Western parts of India under the Shakas pretty much took up all of his time in the 2nd half of his reign. However neither video answers whether he actually intended to conquer the NW, whether before or post the conquest of the Western parts of India, to begin with.
@@blacksea5371 chandragupta ll vikramaditya annihilated the shakas, satvahanas came under the gupta influence. Chandragupta ll remained undefeated till his death
Nobody defeated samrat samudragupta and his son samrat Chandragupta Vikramaditya and during reign of chandragupta vikramaditya india was military and economic super power of that time
@@JayVardhanSingh Capital of the Gupta Empire was Pataliputra no? I also read somewhere that during Samudragupta's time Ayodhya was like a secondary capital and during Chandragupta II's time Ujjain was like a secondary capital.
Before watching this video, please watch these videos. It will help to understand the argument better.
Chandragupta II's struggle With Ramagupta
ruclips.net/video/WhdSdYecUxM/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
Chandragupta II's expedition beyond Hindu Kush
ruclips.net/video/0ImPPhaoNeY/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
Chandragupta II's conquest of Western Kshatraps
ruclips.net/video/bV13l5MpbTc/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
Bro I think you should make history videos like Kings and generals, historymarche who cover important battles, kingdoms with it's history. You already have great knowledge, if you can add some animations it'd be perfect👌✨
Chandragupta II = Justinian
Western Kshatrapas = Ostrogoths
Gujrat= Italian Peninsula
It's "desi gothic war", took time, emptied war treasurery, tired the Gupta army and kept it away from conquering western India.
gujarat conquer krne k bad unki economy flourish hui thi, unhe gujarat k ports ka access mila jisse vo romans se trade kr paye
Hey Jay, I’m really liking ur videos… You have unique way telling the story. Just a request, can u cover the Rise and Fall of Empires which ruled North and South in chronological order from 1 AD.
Thank you.
Thanks for this suggestion as well. I would try to make this type of a video but first I will cover the history of these Empires/Kingdoms separately. As you can imagine producing this kind of video would take quite a bit of work.
@@JayVardhanSingh Yeah bro I agree! It’s a lot of work…
Also another question which I had was how did these great kings manage their logistics and found the accurate routes from North to South or East to West when they went on a military campaign!! Can you make a video on this when u have time? Thanks a lot for the reply 😊
I've made two video that covers this. Here's the link
ruclips.net/video/sR_cX3Kp2TM/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
ruclips.net/video/Hsd8IN8LWWs/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
Chandragupta even crossed the Indus and reached till bactria..its obvious from Iron piller inscription..though these victories were temporary.
Have already made a video on it, please check the pinned comment.
Those were against the red Huns aka the Kidarites.
@@Shahanshah.Shahinchandragupt sacked 3 Sassanian rulers! Gutp-Sassanian war : battle of sistan , battle of balkh , battle oxus river ,
No he didn't as Sassanians wasn't there@@Universe_666
I really would like a video from you contrasting the military capabilities in the form of 2nd rung leaders of Western armies and Indian armies.
One of the glaring contrasts that I find after reading world history is that in Western armies, credit and mention of many generals are made, who could win wars independently.
For example, Alexander's wars easily mention about 30 generals including their children, who he could send out simultaneously in different directions on separate battles. This resulted in Alexander himself leading battle in only NINE instances and winning all of them.
Similarly, the Romans, even during the Republican times, they had several famous generals and they had a bench strength to conduct simultaneous battles in different directions against different enemies. Take for example, Marius & Sulla & Julius Caesar's civil war followed by Augustus & Agrippina and many more.
I don't find any such famous generals in Indian accounts. It only returns in Indian history AFTER the Islamic invasions with the most famous being Khilji's 3 generals & Malik Kafur.
Go and watch vieenet Agrawal history distortion video..... It will help u to discover more and pls make video on ot also
vo to gawar h usko koi seriously nhi leta 😂
Nice videos sir
I am history student currently doing graduation form Jaipur and your videos are helping me a lot to cover my ancient Indian history syllabus.
But sir I have a request for you that can you make the similiar kind of videos on modern history too.
Great video Jay Bhai hopefully you make a video about Gupta Sassanid relations or even Chalukya
Thanks Bhai. I've tried to look into the Gupta-Sassanid relations but I didn't find anything worth making a video on. If you can suggest some books/articles that would be great. Although I will talk about the Gupta-Sassanid relation in the Hunnic invasion video.
About the Chalukyas and their relation with the Guptas. I'll try to include this topic in the video on the Chalukyas.
@@JayVardhanSingh uh well if you have Instagram you check this post… it was about Shahenshah Bahram and Chandragupta II working together against hunas. And also Khosrow II and The Maukhari dynasty and Chalukya king Pulakeshin II.. please make video on Them Jay bhai 🙏🏽
Khosrow I not II
Yes, in my videos on the Gupta-Hun conflict this aspect will be covered.
@@JayVardhanSingh okay Jay bhai I am look forward to it 🗿
I don't understand that Chandragupt is not pronounced as Chandragupta then why the empire is pronounced as Gupta empire and not Gupt empire??
Different people pronounce differently... Gupta, gupt, gupto(in Bengali)...
Will you make videos on the arab conquest of the Indian subcontinent? The resistance provided by the Hindus of Afghanistan and the Brahman dynasty of sindh. On how their expansion was halted by lalitaditya muktapida, bappa rawal and mihir bhoj. Also what do you think about lalitaditya's alleged campaigns? Did he really march as far as the Caspian sea? I personally believe he must have went at least as far as Afghanistan and other parts of central Asia. What do you think? Hoping that you'd reply.
His claim of attacking the chinese region is also claimed to be a folklore. The western most part would be the eastern ends of the central asia. Border area of modern day Tajikistan , Afghanistan, Pakistan and china. So Caspian sea is off the charts.
@@PriceyTomato boarder of what? Pakistan or Afghanistan?
Yes, both Arab invasion and the conquest of Lalitaditya will be covered in future videos. Thanks for your suggestion.
@@JayVardhanSingh cant wait
@@JayVardhanSingh also was the Gupta empire 4 million km2 at its peak??
I think Chandragupta II or samudragupta destroyed hunas in war .
They never face these inavders in their life time
@@prateekrai6260Chandragupta ll did. It in this case Chandragupta ll was the attacker
@@Lmao69 skandgupta face
@@Lmao69Its not chandragupta ii, its skandgupta
@@prateekrai6260emperor Chandragupta 2 invaded balkh and defeated huns and persians there(source iron pillar inscription of mehrauli and kalidas raghuvamsa)
Didn't Chandragupta II conquered balkh over sindhu as pilar inscription near kutub minar?
I've covered it in this video.
ruclips.net/video/0ImPPhaoNeY/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
Quite frankly this seems to be countering one hypothesis with little substantiating evidence with another hypothesis with little substantiating evidence.
If there's little evidence to suggest that Chandragupta - II could've mounted an invasion of the NW, there's equally limited evidence to suggest that he couldn't.
Why exactly are you supposing it was an either western provinces vs NW of the Indian sub continent just on the basis of a section of historians reporting that Chandragupta - II was busy pacifying the Western provinces without offering any evidence in support of your hypothesis is beyond me !
Goel himself seems to be working with the benefit of retrospective vision.
FYI - post the Arab conquest of Sindh & Southern Pakistani Punjab while the Gurjara Prathiharas were successful in repeated campaigns repelling the Arab attempts to invade Rajasthan, they made no such attempts to push them out of their strongholds in Sindh & Southern Pakistani Punjab.
It could well stand to reason that the tripartite struggle kept the Gurjara Prathiharas occupied throughout their existence eventually sapping the energy & vitality of both their empires viz the Gurjara Prathiharas & the Rashtrakutas thanks to their exertions with both having collapsed in around the same time.
Yet no historian explains why didn't the Gurjara Prathiharas move northwards to the Indian part of Punjab into what's now NW Pakistan into Afghanistan & down South towards southern Pakistani Punjab & Sindh to take control of the silk route in Afghanistanto extending to the Middle East & beyond & the ports in Sindh - another lucrative source of trade instead of wasting their energies over the tripartite struggle for Kannauj.
I don't think that is the case.
There's enough evidence to suggest that the conquest of the Western Kshatrap took a long time to complete. I also believe that in the initial part of his reign, he wasn't in a position to mount an expedition in either North-West or in Gujarat. It was only at the close of his reign that he was able to start the Shaka campaign. There is numismatic evidence to suggest that this invasion happened at the close of his reign. Please watch my earlier video.
Considering all of this evidence, I would argue that there was no time and resources left for Chandragupta II to conquer the North-West. We should also take into consideration that some scholars believe that the conquest of the Western Kshatrap was completed during the reign of Kumaragupta.
But yes, this is my hypothesis. It is entirely justified of you to reject it.
@@JayVardhanSingh You misunderstood. I'm neither accepting nor rejecting your hypothesis. You clearly stated in this video that he launched his Western India campaigns half way thru his reign.
Then you go on to reject Goel's hypothesis by suggesting that " some historians have claimed that Chandragupta - II completed his conquest by the end of his reign" which obviously didn't leave him enough time to focus on the NW assuming he was interested in the NW to begin with.
When you base your entire hypothesis on just one premise don't you think you ought to substantiate / elaborate on why that section of historians came to the conclusion that Chandragupta - II actually took so long to accomplish his task & marshall the evidence they offered in support of such a claim ?
Now you're adding that these conquests were finally completed during Kumargupta's reign. This merely compounds the confusion.
Don't get me wrong. You're doing a fine job with your presentation covering little known aspects of ancient Indian history in some depth & are actually one of the few channels producing quality content.
Hence, in my humble opinion fwiw, is that you ought to set a higher standard or at least be held to a greater degree of accountability than the rest out here .
Had this been the case with any of the other channels I wouldn't even bother to complete the video & would have moved on the minute it became obvious that there was no supporting evidence to back the hypothesis.
It's just honest feedback. Hope it's taken in the right spirit.
@I C Thanks for this clarification.
I think there's confusion here. In my earlier video on the conquest of Western Kshatraps, I have provided the evidence (numismatical and inscriptional). I didn't repeat the same argument here. I was assuming that people would've already watched those videos.
The initial period of Chandragupta II's reign and his expedition beyond the Hindu Kush is also covered in another video.
Here're the videos.
ruclips.net/video/0ImPPhaoNeY/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh (Chandragupta II's expedition beyond Hindukush)
ruclips.net/video/bV13l5MpbTc/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh (Chandragupta II's conquest of Western Kshatraps)
About Kumaragupta's history, I came to know about this after publishing my video on the Shaka conquest. I am merely suggesting that there's also this view.
Please watch this video
ruclips.net/video/bV13l5MpbTc/видео.html&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh
@@JayVardhanSingh
Thanks for your response. This shall be my last post on the subject for any more correspondence on my part would be pedantry & nit picking.
I've just seen those videos . I don't think you've quite grasped what I was seeking to articulate. My statements were regarding 2 issues namely :
1.) How do we know for sure whether Chandragupta -II actually intended to conquer the NW especially after he launched a campaign there before his invasion of the Western parts of India held by the Shakas?
He could've well extended those raiding campaigns into the NW into a war of conquest. We know for sure he didn't. Whether it had to do with logistics or the topography or the fact that even if he pacified that territory , retaining control over it would sap up much of his resources, we can't say.
2.) Related to this is the question of why didn't he focus on the NW post his conquest of the Western parts of India. The earlier videos certainly confirm he couldn't do so as the conquest of the Western parts of India under the Shakas pretty much took up all of his time in the 2nd half of his reign.
However neither video answers whether he actually intended to conquer the NW, whether before or post the conquest of the Western parts of India, to begin with.
Gupta empire had control till Indus river easily
even far beyond it
Great video
Have you listened to history of india podcast by kit Patrick?
Yes, it is one of my favourite podcasts.
@@JayVardhanSingh is there any other Vikramaditya before Chandragupta 2
So who defeated Chandragupta 2 ?
no one
@@JayVardhanSingh and Saka era?? Sativahanas??
@@blacksea5371 chandragupta ll vikramaditya annihilated the shakas, satvahanas came under the gupta influence. Chandragupta ll remained undefeated till his death
@@Lmao69 thank you
Nobody defeated samrat samudragupta and his son samrat Chandragupta Vikramaditya and during reign of chandragupta vikramaditya india was military and economic super power of that time
Can you make a video about what Pataliputra was like during the Gupta Empire?
I'am planning to do a video on the Gupta Capital. There I'll discuss Pataliputra as well.
@@JayVardhanSingh Capital of the Gupta Empire was Pataliputra no? I also read somewhere that during Samudragupta's time Ayodhya was like a secondary capital and during Chandragupta II's time Ujjain was like a secondary capital.
No, some scholars don't think that is the case. In the video on the Capital of the Guptas, I will talk in detail about this.
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Nice