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 288 THE GUPTA EMPIRE AND THE WHITE HUNS black eyes, deeply buried in the head; and, as they were almost destitute of beards, they never enjoyed the manly graces of youth or the venerable aspect of age." The Indians, like the Goths, experienced to the full the miseries of savage warfare, and suffered an added horror by reason of the special disgust felt by fastidi- GWALIOR, FROM MORAR. ous caste-bound Hindus at the repulsive habits of bar- barians to whom nothitfg was sacred. The cruelty practised by Mihiragula became so un- bearable that the native princes, under the leadership of Baladitya, King of Magadha (probably the same as Narasimhagupta), and Yasodharman, a raja of Central India, formed a confederacy against the foreign tyrant. About the year 528 A. D., they accomplished the delivery of their country from oppression by inflicting a decisive