Purugupta

 ( 5th-century Indian Monarchs ) 

Purugupta (Gupta script: Pu-ra-gu-pta, ) (reigned 467–473 CE) was an emperor of the Gupta dynasty in northern India. Purugupta was a son of the Gupta emperor Kumaragupta I by his queen Anantadevi. He succeeded his half-brother Skandagupta.

No inscription of Purugupta has been found so far. He is known from the Bhitari silver-copper seal of his grandson Kumaragupta III and Nalanda clay sealings of his sons Narasimhagupta and Budhagupta and his grandson Kumaragupta III. From the Saranath Buddha image inscription, it is concluded that he was succeeded by Kumaragupta II.

Ashvini Agarwal (1989). 9788120805927, Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 9788120805927

According to Hornell and Raychaudhary, Prakashaditya was another title of Purugupta,

V D Mahajan (2025). 9789352837243, S. Chand Publishing. . ISBN 9789352837243

although this has now been disproven by Pankaj Tandon, who has definitively shown that Prakashaditya was the Hun king Toramana.Pankaj Tandon: "The Identity of Prakasaditya," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, October 2015, pp. 647-668 [1]

According to a Nalanda seal of Vishnugupta, Vishnugupta was son of Kumaragupta III, and grandson of Purugupta.Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol.3 (inscriptions Of The Early Gupta Kings) p.364

Sun temple at konark was built by Narishmadeva-1 in 13 century. The temple is now a world heritage site.

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