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The Age of the Guptas - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Suvarnabhumi (Myanmar)
      - Kamboja (Cambodia)
      - Yavadvipa (Java)
  - - - Arabia
      - Iran
      - Egypt
      - Rome
  - - - brahmins said that people would lose their caste if they cross the seas
      - merchants were treated as lower caste people
- - - - Temples
        
        Goddess Devi
        
        Shiva
        
        Vushnu
        
        Puja - form of worship
      - Bhakti belief
        
        No elaborate rituals
        
        No priests
        
        No sacrifices
        
        Unified Vaishnavism and Shaivism
        
        Intense devotion to God
      - Guptas followed Hinduism
        
        Lord Vishnu and Garuda - Royal Emblem
        
        Religious tolerance
        
        Ashvamedha sacrifice
      - Minor gods
        
        Varuna
        
        Surya
        
        Indra
        
        Required sacrifice
    - - Multiple Monasteries
      - Nalanda University
      - Kumarajiva and Bodhidharma travelled to China
      - Decline
        
        Merchants - hard to trade
        
        Mahayana Budhhism
        
        Budhha became a god
        
        Image had to be worshipped
        
        Not different from Hinduism
        
        Invasion of the huns