Introduction
Narasimhagupta, also known as Baladitya, was a later Gupta emperor associated with continued imperial patronage of Nalanda during a period of overall Gupta decline.
Family
- Father: Purugupta
- Children: Kumaragupta II
A Debated Victory Over the Hunas
Traditional accounts, including later Chinese Buddhist pilgrim records, credit Narasimhagupta with finally defeating the Huna king Mihirakula, whose earlier campaigns had devastated much of northern India; modern historians treat this claim with some caution given the sparse and sometimes contradictory contemporary evidence, but Narasimhagupta's reign is nonetheless generally seen as a point of at least partial Gupta recovery against the Huna threat, alongside his sustained support for Nalanda's continued growth as a center of Buddhist learning.
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.