Author Name: Elisha Dhariwal Date: 24-04-2026
Abstract
The studies paper investigates the various functions that women held at some stage in the Gupta Empire which lasted from approximately 320 to 550 CE with the aid of engaging in an in depth investigation of epigraphic records. The Gupta inscriptions which encompass copper plates and stone inscriptions and seals and coin legends serve as essential primary materials that display how women exercised their political and economic and spiritual and cultural powers. In assessment to literary texts which gift fashionable gender beliefs as their main consciousness, inscriptions provide real proof of ways girls took element in governance and religious patronage and financial transactions and social sports. The research indicates that girls from royal backgrounds had energy to make independent choices at the same time as ladies from common backgrounds made critical contributions to non secular institutions and community improvement. The inscriptional evidence disputes monolithic money owed that depict girls as subordinate to men and shows how women experienced life for the duration of this transformative length of Indian history thru their more than one social fame levels which existed in society at that time.
keywords: Gupta Empire, women’s history, epigraphy, inscriptions, gender studies, ancient India, royal girls, spiritual patronage
