Introduction
Budhagupta was a later Gupta emperor known from inscriptions to have ruled over a substantially reduced Gupta domain compared to the empire's earlier peak.
Family
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An Uncertain Place in the Line
Budhagupta's exact relationship to the immediately preceding Gupta rulers is not clearly established in the surviving inscriptional record, and this uncertainty is left unresolved here rather than filled in with a guessed parentage. His reign nonetheless provides useful evidence, through dated inscriptions from various regions, of the Gupta Empire's continued but diminished presence in this later period.
This article records the Gupta Empire (c. 3rd-6th century CE) as historical genealogy reconstructed mainly from inscriptions, coinage and later literary references; several later successions and family relationships remain genuinely disputed among historians, and this account follows the most widely accepted reconstruction while flagging specific points of uncertainty.