Divakarasena
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Divakarasena (405–420) was the eldest son of Rudrasena II and Prabhavatigupta. He was the Yuvaraja or Crown Prince of the Vakataka kingdom. Since he was still a child, Prabhavatigupta assumed the reigns of government and ruled in his name.
History
We know that Prabhavatigupta ruled for at least 13 years as a regent because her Pune grant is dated to the thirteenth year of her own rule, where she calls herself "Mother of the Yuvaraja Divakarasena". It seems that Prabhavatigupta retained control of the Vakataka government even after Crown Prince Divakarasena reached his sixteenth year and was no longer a minor, as there is no evidence that Divakarasena ever ascended his paternal throne as Maharaja. Prabhavatigupta's continued political dominance may be either due to some special circumstances which prevented Divakarasena from ruling in his own name, or simply due to Prabhavatigupta's own love of power.[2]
Divakarasena was eventually succeeded by his younger brother Damodarasena around 410. It is possible that for a time, Prabhavatigupta acted as regent on his behalf as well.[3] During Prabhavatigupta's time in power, Gupta influence over the Vakatakas reached its peak. Prabhavatigupta's inscriptions provide her own Gupta genealogy and emphasize her own natal connections. Her gotra is given as Dharana, which was the gotra of her father, rather than the Vishnuvriddha gotra of the Vakataka dynasty.[4] Indeed, for the 20 or so years of Prabhavatigupta's regency, the Vakataka realm was "practically a part of the Gupta empire."[5]
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- ↑ Dr Naval Viyogi: Nagas – The Ancient Rulers of India/General Index of Nagas, The Ancient Rulers of India, p.338
- ↑ D.C. Sircar (1997). Majumdar, R.C. (ed.). The Classical Age (Fifth ed.). Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. pp. 180–181.
- ↑ Shastri, Ajay Mitra (1997). Vakatakas: Sources and History. Aryan Books International. p. 183. ISBN 9788173051234.
- ↑ Singh, Upinder (2009). A history of ancient and early medieval India : from the Stone Age to the 12th century. New Delhi: Pearson Longman. p. 483. ISBN 978-81-317-1677-9.
- ↑ Kulke, Hermann; Rothermund, Dietmar (2004). A History of India (Fourth ed.). Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 9780415329200.