Origins & Early Life

Shashanka (IAST: Śaśāṅka) was king of the Gauda Kingdom, a polity of the later Gupta dynasty and later its successor state. Historians place his rule between 600 and 636, whereas other sources place his reign between 590 and 625. making his lasted approximately from 593 to 636. He is the contemporary of Harsha and of Bhaskaravarman of Kamarupa.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

His capital was at Karnasuvarna in present day India. He is credited with creating the Bengali calendar. There are several major contemporary sources of information on his life, including copper plates from his vassal Madhavavarma (king of Ganjam), copper plates of his rivals Harsha and Bhaskaravarman, the accounts of Banabhatta, who was a bard in the court of Harsha, and of the Chinese monk Xuanzang, and also coins minted in Shashanka's reign. Little is known about the early life of Shashanka. The historian D.

Enduring Legacy & Impact

K. Ganguly proposed that Shashanka was a native of Magadha who initially served as a high feudatory under the Maukhari kings Avantivarman and Grahavarman before eventually conquering Magadha and invading Gauda. Epigraphic evidence strongly links his early career to the Later Gupta dynasty....

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