Editing Chandragupta II (section)

== Personal life and matrimonial alliances ==
[[File:Chandragupta II paying homage to Varaha in Udayagiri Caves.jpg|thumb|Probable image of Chandragupta II, paying homage to [[Varaha]], avatar of [[Vishnu]], in [[Udayagiri Caves]], circa 400.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Becker |first1=Catherine |title=Not Your Average Board: The Colossal Varāha at Erāṇ, an Iconographic Innovation |journal=Artibus Asiae |year=2010 |volume=70 |issue=1 |page=127 |issn=0004-3648 |jstor=20801634}}</ref>]]
Gupta records mention [[Dhruvadevi]] as Chandragupta's queen, and the mother of his successor [[Kumaragupta I]].{{sfn|Ashvini Agrawal|1989|pp=191–200}} The [[Basarh]] clay seal mentions Dhruva-svamini as a queen of Chandragupta, and the mother of [[Govindagupta]].{{sfn|Tej Ram Sharma|1989|p=111}}{{sfn|Romila Thapar|2013|p=359}} It is unlikely that Chandragupta had two different queens with similar names: it appears that Dhruvasvamini was most probably another name for Dhruvadevi, and that Govindagupta was a real brother of Kumaragupta.{{sfn|Tej Ram Sharma|1978|p=30}}

Chandragupta also married Kuvera-naga (alias Kuberanaga), whose name indicates that she was a princess of the [[Nagas of Padmavati|Naga dynasty]], which held considerable power in central India before Samudragupta subjugated them. This matrimonial alliance may have helped Chandragupta consolidate the Gupta empire, and the Nagas may have helped him in his war against the Western Kshatrapas.{{sfn|R. C. Majumdar|1981|p=60}}

[[Prabhavatigupta|Prabhavati-gupta]], the daughter of Chandragupta and Kuvera-naga, married the [[Vakataka]] king [[Rudrasena II]], who ruled in the [[Deccan]] region to the south of the Gupta empire.{{sfn|R. C. Majumdar|1981|p=59}} After her husband's death in c. 390, Prabhavati-gupta acted as a regent for her minor sons.{{sfn|Hermann Kulke|Dietmar Rothermund|2004|p=91}} In the two copper-plate inscriptions issued during her regency, the names of her Gupta ancestors with their imperial titles appear before the name of the Vakataka king with the lesser title ''Maharaja''. This suggests that the Gupta court may have had influence in the Vakataka administration during her regency.{{sfn|R. C. Majumdar|1981|p=59}} Historians [[Hermann Kulke]] and [[Dietmar Rothermund]] believe that the Vakataka kingdom was "practically a part of the Gupta empire" during her 20-year long regency.{{sfn|Hermann Kulke|Dietmar Rothermund|2004|p=91}} The Vakatakas may have supported Chandragupta during his conflict with the Western Kshatrapas.{{sfn|R. C. Majumdar|1981|p=60}}

The Guptas also appear to have entered into a matrimonial alliance with the [[Kadamba dynasty]], the southern neighbours of the Vakatakas. The [[Talagunda pillar inscription]] suggests that the daughters of the Kadamba king Kakusthavarman, married into other royal families, including that of the Guptas.{{sfn|Tej Ram Sharma|1989|p=174}}{{sfn|R. C. Majumdar|1981|p=60}} While Kakusthavarman was a contemporary of Chandragupta's son Kumaragupta I,{{sfn|Tej Ram Sharma|1989|p=174}} it is noteworthy that some medieval chiefs of present-day [[Karnataka]] (where the Kadambas ruled) claimed descent from Chandragupta.{{sfn|R. C. Majumdar|1981|p=60}} According to the [[Vikramaditya]] legends, emperor Vikramaditya (a character believed to be based on Chandragupta) sent his court poet [[Kalidasa]] as an ambassador to the lord of [[Kuntala country|Kuntala]]. While the Kuntala king referred to in this legend has been identified by some scholars with a Vakataka king, it is more likely that he was a Kadamba king, because the Vakataka king did not rule over Kuntala, and was never called the lord of Kuntala.{{sfn|R. C. Majumdar|1981|p=60}}