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Throw light on the condition of women during the Gupta period with the help of contemporary sources.
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
No single contemporary source can capture the condition of Gupta women in full, because each kind of evidence illuminates a different, narrow social layer — coins and inscriptions show only royal and elite women exercising visible power, while Dharmashastra and Kamasutra literature describe an ideal, dependent domesticity meant for women generally; reading these sources together,…
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- Numismatic and Sigillographic Evidence: Royal Women Made Visible
- Inscriptions: Political Agency and Its Limits
- Fa-Hien's Testimony: An Outsider's Silence
- Legal and Prescriptive Texts: The Architecture of Dependence
- Kamasutra and Sanskrit Court Literature: The Elite Domestic Ideal
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