Total 42 Inscriptions available
23→ → Private Records
19→ → Official Records

• 27 are engraved in stone.
• 22 → private endowments,
• 1→ official grant and the
• 4 → prasastis (two of Samudragupta and two of
• Skandagupta).
• 15→ one is on an iron column and is the prasasti of
• Chandragupta II.

Official Records
prasastis or charters recording land grants,
tamra sasanas or tamra patras (copper plates)–>

tracing the events of the reign of Chandragupta II and
Buddhagupta.

• Non-Gupta Contemporary Inscriptions
• Kakusthavraman of the Kadamba dynasty— reveal that he had married off one of his daughters to the Guptas
• Varman dynasty→ ruled independently in the neighbourhood of Mandasore without recognising the supremacy of the Guptas
• Inscriptions of Toramana and Mihirakula
• Rashtrakuta copper plates
• Sarnath inscription of Pakataditya and
• Nalanda inscription
• of Yasodharman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_art