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{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Gupta–Hunnic Wars
| partof = Indo–Hunnic Wars
| image = {{Continental Asia in 420 CE|right|The [[Gupta Empire]] and neighbouring polities {{Circa|420 CE}}.||Map of the Gupta Empire circa 420 CE.png}}
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| place = [[Oxus]], [[Kashmir]], [[Punjab]], [[Gujarat|Gujrat]], [[Central India]] and [[Bihar]]
| result = Hunnic victory<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ph.D |first=Alfred J. Andrea |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/World_History_Encyclopedia.html?id=s5X3EAAAQBAJ |title=World History Encyclopedia: [21 volumes] |date=2011-03-23 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-85109-930-6 |language=en |quote="The Gupta empire's decline started in the middle of the fifth century, when Hephthalite (Huna, or White Hun) incursions sapped the Gupta's strength"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kohn |first=George Childs |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Dictionary_of_Wars.html?id=qTDfAQAAQBAJ |title=Dictionary of Wars |date=2013-10-31 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95494-9 |language=en |quote="Successful invasions by White Huns weakened the kingdom so thoroughly that with the death of the last Gupta ruler (c. 467) only a Bengal remnant of its power existed, and then only until 499."}}</ref><ref name=lucky>{{Cite book |last=Middleton |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/World_Monarchies_and_Dynasties.html?id=R63ACQAAQBAJ |title=World Monarchies and Dynasties |date=2015-06-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-45158-7 |pages=352 |language=en |quote="Skanda's successors, could not resist the overpowering Hun assault, which ultimately ended the Gupta dynasty around 550 and placed a large part of India under the control of the White Huns."}}</ref>
| territory = * [[Hephthalites]] occupied [[Bactria]]
* [[Kidara I]] conquered [[Gandhara]]
* [[Chandragupta II]] conquered the [[Bactria]] region{{efn|" The [[Iron pillar of Delhi|Mehrauli Pillar Inscription]] (No.20) describes the digvijaya of a king named Candra (i.e. [[Chandragupta II|Candragupta II]]) in the first verse as stated below :
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* loss of [[Alchon Hun]] possessions in [[Punjab]] and [[North India]] by 542
* [[Yashodharman]] and [[Narasimhagupta]] conquered most of [[India]]
* By 550, a large part of the Indian Subcontinent became placed under the rule of the [[White Huns]]<ref name="lucky"/>
| combatant1 = [[Gupta Empire]]
*[[Kidarites]]
*[[Maukhari dynasty]]
*[[Aulikara dynasty]]
| combatant2 = [[Hephthalites]]
* [[Sasanians]]
* [[Kushans]]
*[[Alchon Huns]]
| commander1 = [[Samudragupta]]<br/>[[Chandragupta II]]<br/>[[Kidara I]]<br/>[[Kumaragupta I]]<br/>[[Skandagupta]]<br/>[[Narasimhagupta]]<br/>[[Budhagupta]]<br/>[[Bhanugupta]]<br/>[[Yashodharman]]<br/>Goparaja{{KIA}}<br/>Prakashadharman <br/>[[Ishanavarman|Iśanavarman]]<br/>Mātṛviṣṇu {{KIA}}
| commander2 = 3 unknown [[Hepthalite]] kings{{POW}} & {{executed}} (possibly)<ref>"The young son of Mahendrasena led his father's army of two hundred thousand men against the enemy whose soldiers numbered three hundred thousand. The prince however, broke the enemy army and won the battle. On his return his father crown him saying "henceforth rule the kingdom," and himself retired to religious life. For twelve years after this, the new king fought these foreign enemies, and ultimately captured and executed the three kings.' It has been suggested that this story gives an account of the fight between [[Skandagupta]] and the [[Hunas|Hūṇas]] (IHIJ. 36)." {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZYwAAAAMAAJ |title=The History and Culture of the Indian People: The classical age |date=1951 |publisher=G. Allen & Unwin |language=en|page=27}}</ref><br/>[[Khingila I]]<br/>Piro<br/>Bhūta<br/>Bharatbala<br/>[[Toramana]]<br/>[[Mihirakula]] ([[POW]])<br/>Prakasaditya<br/>Harigupta<br/>Dhanyavishnu
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