The Ikshavakus arose on the ruins of Satavahana power in eastern part of the peninsula in India. The Ikshavakus left behind many monuments at Nagarjunkonda and Dharanikota. They were a local tribe.
The historian V. A. Smith has called Samudragupta the ‘Napoleon’ of India because of his policy of war and conquest. He started with the conquest of his immediate neighbours and then by campaigns to the east and the south.
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