Achyuta Naga was the last independent ruler of Panchala, in what is now northern India. He was defeated by

Samudragupta Samudragupta (Gupta script: ''Sa-mu-dra-gu-pta'', (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of the dynasty. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Li ...

, a powerful Gupta emperor.

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Achyuta Naga was the last independent ruler of Panchala. He was defeated by the Gupta Emperor

, after which Panchala was annexed into the

Gupta Empire The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire which existed from the early 4th century CE to late 6th century CE. At its zenith, from approximately 319 to 467 CE, it covered much of the Indian subcontinent. This period is considered as the Gol ...

The coins of Achyuta found from Ahichatra have a wheel of eight spokes on the reverse and the legend ''Achyu'' on the obverse.Lahiri, B. (1974). ''Indigenous States of Northern India (Circa 200 B.C. to 320 A.D.) '', Calcutta: University of Calcutta, p.182 The early portion of the Prayag ''prashasti'' of Samudragupta mentions that Samudragupta "uprooted" three kings: Achyuta,

Nagasena Nāgasena was a Sarvastivadan Buddhist sage who lived around 150 BC. His answers to questions about Buddhism posed by Menander I (Pali: ''Milinda''), the Indo-Greek king of northwestern India, are recorded in the '' Milinda Pañha'' and the Sa ...

, and another ruler, whose name is lost in the damaged portion of the inscription. According to the inscription, Samudragupta reinstated these rulers after they sought his forgiveness. It is not clear why these three kings' names are repeated later in the inscription. According to one theory, they were vassal rulers who rebelled against Samudragupta after the death of his father. Samudragupta crushed the rebellion and reinstated them after they sought his forgiveness. Later, these rulers rebelled once more, and Samudragupta defeated them again. Another possibility is that the author of the inscription thought it necessary to repeat these names while describing Samudragupta's later conquests in Aryavarta, simply because these kings belonged to that region.

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* * * * {{cite book , author=Tej Ram Sharma , title=A Political History of the Imperial Guptas: From Gupta to Skandagupta , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWVZWjNAcAgC , year=1989 , publisher=Concept , isbn=978-81-7022-251-4 History of India Gupta Empire