Question

Prithivyah Pratham Veer was the title of?
a. Samudragupta
b. Rajendra I
c. Amoghavarsha
d. Gautamiputra Satakarni

Answer 1

Hint: This king was the second ruler of the Gupta dynasty in India. Some historians also call him the Napoleon of India because of his military ambition. He was the greatest ruler of the Gupta dynasty, some of his major military campaigns are the First Aryavarta war and the Southern Campaign.

Complete answer: The ruler who adopted the titles of Prithivyah Pratham Veer was Samudragupta.
-Samudragupta ruled from around 330 to 380 BC and is credited with expanding the territory of the Gupta empire.
-He was a military genius. He captured the Ganga Yamuna doab, the major area which came under this was present-day West Bengal and other small kingdoms. In the West he captured some parts of Central India and West Bengal, in the South, he captured kingdoms as far as Tamil Nadu.
-At the zenith of his rule Samudragupta had entire North India (except Kashmir, Western Punjab and some part of Rajasthan) under his control, his empire stretched to the Southern and Eastern extents of the country.

Thus, the correct option is (A).

Note: Samudragupta didn’t capture the states of Western Punjab and Sindh because he wanted to keep them as buffer states, which means that he wanted to have friendly relations with them so that in times of need he could ask them for help, he also treated the kings of captured kingdoms with great respect and let them rule after they accepted the Gupta empire as their superior, he also had good relations with other kingdoms like Srilanka, The Kushans and the Shakas.