Editing Indore (section)

===Gupta Empire (Gupta Era)===
[[Gupta Empire]] inscription mentions Indore as city/town of Indrapura in Gupta Indore Copper plate inscription dated 146 Gupta era or 465 CE.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maity|first=Sachindra Kumar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCXUAAAAMAAJ&q=indrapura+indore+skandagupta|title=Economic Life in Northern India in the Gupta Period, Cir. A.D. 300–550|date=1970|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=9780896841994|language=en}}</ref> These are also some of the earliest mentions of Indore where the city is mentioned as 'Indrapura'.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Dandekar|first1=R. N.|title=Some Aspects of the Gupta Civilization: Economic Conditions|journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute|date=1960|volume=20|issue=1/4|pages=108–115|jstor=42929739|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42929739|access-date=26 September 2020|issn=0045-9801|archive-date=11 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211151744/https://www.jstor.org/stable/42929739|url-status=live}}</ref> Indrapura (modern day Indore) was then known for its sun temple, where in 464–65 CE, Gupta king [[Skandagupta]] had made an endowment for the permanent maintenance of the city's sun temple. The temple was constructed by two merchants of the city – Achalavarman and Bhṛikuṇṭhasiṁha.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Fleet|first1=John Faithfull|title=Corpus inscriptionum indicarum vol.III|date=1888|publisher=Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta|page=71|url=https://www.indianculture.gov.in/rarebooks/corpus-inscriptionum-indicarum-voliii|language=en}}</ref>

[[File:466 CE Indore Copper Plate Inscription, Hinduism, Skandagupta, Sanskrit.jpg|thumb|An early Gupta era inscription from ancient India. This is a photograph of a personal copy of plates published by John Fleet in 1888, with Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings And Their Successors, as a part of the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum series, Vol. 3]]