Gupta Empire

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the Indian empire that flourished from approximately 320 to 550 CE under the Gupta dynasty, representing a golden age of Hindu culture, art, literature, philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy; under rulers including Chandragupta I, Samudragupta, and Chandragupta II, the Gupta Empire unified much of the Indian subcontinent and produced extraordinary achievements in Sanskrit literature — the plays and poetry of Kalidasa — as well as in sculpture, temple architecture, and court music; the mathematician Aryabhata, working in the Gupta period, calculated the value of pi, explained solar and lunar eclipses, and proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system; the decimal number system and the concept of zero, which later transformed mathematics worldwide via Arab intermediaries, were developed and systematised by Gupta-era scholars