Who was the first known Gupta ruler?
(A) Sri Gupta
(B) Chandragupta I
(C) Ghatotkacha
(D) Kumaragupta I
Answer: (A) Sri Gupta (240–280) was a pre-imperial Gupta king in northern India and the start of the Gupta dynasty. The first evidence of Sri Gupta comes from the writings of I-tsing around 690 CE who describes that the Poona copper inscription of Prabhavati Gupta, a daughter of Chandra Gupta, describes “Maharaja Sri-Gupta” as the founder of the Gupta dynasty
