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In the twilight of the 4th century CE, as the Gupta Empire consolidated its dominion across the Gangetic plain, a young prince, later known in inscriptions as Puru Gupta, orchestrated the integration of regional feudatories not through conquest alone, but by codifying shared ritual protocols at Ujjain’s Kālāmukha assemblies. His innovation lay in adapting Vedic śrauta rites to accommodate local deities like Mātṛkā and Skanda, thereby transforming liturgical practice into a tool of political cohesion. Unlike his predecessors who emphasized military triumphs on pillar edicts, Puru championed epigraphic bilingualism, Sanskrit alongside early Prakrit variants, ensuring administrative decrees resonated with both Brahmin scholars and village headmen. He personally supervised the restoration of the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh not as patronage but as pedagogical intervention, embedding astronomical alignments and grammatical sutras into its carvings to train provincial scribes. His reign marked the first systematic use of copper-plate land grants to bind agrarian elites to royal legitimacy, not through coercion, but calibrated reciprocity.
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