Founded by Sri Gupta, the Gupta empire was one of the largest empires of Ancient India. Historians regard this period as the Golden Age in the history of Ancient India. Chandragupta I, Samudragupta, and Chandragupta II were some of the prominent rulers of the Gupta dynasty. For around two centuries, the rulers of this dynasty provided political integration to a wide part of north India. The Guptas effectively ruled their empire accommodated in the development of those situations which brought about the growth of Sanskrit language and literature, widespread discoveries and inventions in science, trade and commerce, agriculture, art, logic, technology, mathematics, astronomy, engineering, dialectic, religion and philosophy. All these developments that took place in this period made historians call the period as the Golden Age.