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380-381' it is not improbable that his father and predecessor died some time after A.D. 375.2 One of the last acts of Samudra Gupta was apparently the selection of his successor. The choice fell on Chandra Gupta, his son by Datta Devi.
1 An inscription of Chandra Gupta 11, dated in the year 61, corresponding to A.D. 380-81 has been discovered recently in the Mathurā district (Ep. Ind., XXI, 1 ff.). . . . ..
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.. . . . • 2 Sircar (IHQ, 1942, 272 ) reads the dated portion of the inscription of the year 61 as Sri Chandra Guptas ya vijaye-rājya samvatsare pañchame-the fifth regnal year of Chandra Gupta (II). Therefore, his first year may be taken to be A.D. 376-77.
