Dhruvadevi
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Dhruva-devi was the queen of the Gupta king Chandragupta II (r. c. 380 – c. 415 CE), who ruled in present-day northern India. She was the mother of his successor Kumaragupta I, and was most probably same as Dhruva-svamini, who has been mentioned as a queen of Chandragupta and the mother of prince Govindagupta in a clay seal inscription as well as the Empress consort of the Gupta Empire.
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Dhruvadevi
- Royalty.succession
- Empress Consort of the Gupta Empire
- Royalty.predecessor
- Dattadevi
- Royalty.successor
- Anantadevi
- Royalty.spouse
- Chandragupta II
- Royalty.dynasty
- Gupta
- Royalty.issue
- GovindaguptaKumaragupta I
- Royalty.house
- Gupta Empire
- Royalty.religion
- Hinduism
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- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Gupta Empire
- Spouse
- Chandragupta II
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- date of birth
- 0380-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
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- In Gupta records
- In Devi-Chandraguptam
- References
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Dhruva-devi was the queen of the Gupta king Chandragupta II (r. c. 380 – c. 415 CE), who ruled in present-day northern India. She was the mother of his successor Kumaragupta I, and was most probably same as Dhruva-svamini, who has been mentioned as a queen of Chandragupta and the mother of prince Govindagupta in a clay seal inscription as well as the Empress consort of the Gupta Empire.
According to the Sanskrit play Devi-Chandraguptam, which is now partially lost, Dhruvadevi was originally a queen of Chandragupta's elder brother Ramagupta, who decided to surrender her to a Shaka enemy after being besieged. Chandragupta entered the enemy camp disguised as the queen, and killed the enemy. A reconstruction of the play, based on other literary and epigraphic evidence, suggests that Chandragupta later killed Ramagupta, and married Dhruva-devi. The historicity of this narrative is debated among modern historians, with some scholars dismissing it as a work of fiction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhruvadevi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.