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Who was the first known Gupta ruler ?
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- Sri Gupta
- Chandragupta I
- Ghatotkacha
- Kumaragupta I
- Sri Gupta
Correct Option: A
Sri Gupta (240–280) was a pre-imperial Gupta king in northern India and start of the Gupta dynasty. The first evidence of Sri Gupta comes from the writings of I-tsing around 690 CE who describes that the Poona copper inscription of Prabhavati Gupta, a daughter of Chandra Gupta, describes “Maharaja Sri-Gupta” as the founder of the Gupta dynasty