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Dramma coin name occurs in the Pratihara inscriptions. Mihira Bhoja I’s epithet was SrimadAdivaraha (the fortunate primeval boar incarnation of Vishnu) and therefore there is a broad agreement amongst the scholars on the attribution of Adivaraha dramma billon coins to him. These coins have a depiction of Adivaraha on the obverse.

Harsha has been criticised by Kalhana for confiscating the temple. Harsha (r.1089-1111) started out as a capable and noble king. Then ran into financial trouble because of his spending habits, and became an evil person.

For the gold, he started raiding temples and started destroying statues. Harsha never felt like a “Hindu” king per se as there were no people who felt themselves to be “Hindus” in those days.

Sudraka’Mrichhakotikam is a ten-act Sanskrit drama attributed to Sudraka an ancient playwright generally thought to have lived sometime between the second century BC and the fifth century AD whom the prologue identifies as a Kshatriya king and a devotee of Shiva who lived for 100 years.

The play is set in the ancient city of Ujjayani during the reign of the King Palaka, near the end of the Pradyota dynasty that made up the first quarter of the fifth century BC.

The Prayaga Prasasti inscription is associated with Samudragupta. The western scholars equate him with Napoleon and call him Indian Napoleon due to the extensive military conquests. His court poet and minister Harisena composed the Allahabad pillar inscription or Prayaga Prasasti. The Pillar was an Asokan pillar erected by Asoka six century before him.

Bhoja is considered to be the author of the Sangitaraja. Amongst Rajput rulers, the flowering of arts and culture during Kumbha’s reign is exceeded only by Bhoja Parmara (Bhoja I).

Maharana Kumbha is credited with writing the Sangitaraja, the Rasika-priya commentary on the Gitagovinda, the Sudaprabandha, and the Kamaraja-ratisara.

Vegbhatta was the author of a famous Ayurvedic text Ashtanghriday. The science of chemistry, due to its Vedic antiquity might have been first recognized in India, as a separate discipline. Alchemy and the science of medicine gave rise to the study of chemistry in India.

The ancient masters as mentioned in connection with chemistry are:

• Patanjali,
• Bhavya Dattadeva,
• Vyadi,
• Svacchanda,
• Damodara,
• Vasudeva,
• Charaka,
• Sushruta,
• Harita and
• Vagbhata.

Ancient Sanskrit documents about the advanced chemical science find the expression in activities like the distillation of perfumes and fragrant ointments.

It is also found in activities like manufacturing of dyes and chemical preparation of pigments and colours and polishing of mirrors.

Aryabhatta and Varahamihira belonged to Gupta age. During Gupta, period education flourished and many great discoveries were made in these fields.

Aryabhatta and Varahamihira, the two great mathematicians contributed in the field of Vedic Mathematics. Aryabhatta found and estimated the value of “Pi” to the fourth decimal place.

Algebra was developed to a great extent and the concepts of zero and infinity were also found and symbols of numbers 1 to 9 were devised which was a great contribution in mathematics. Advances in astronomy were also on heights in the Gupta Age.