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Highlight the achievements of the Gupta period in the field of literature, science and technology.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

The question sets aside art and architecture to ask specifically what the Gupta age contributed to the life of the mind and the mastery of technique — a survey best organized as three registers of achievement: an intellectual-literary explosion in Sanskrit, a set of genuine scientific breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics and medicine, and a level…

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