Śri Gupta (r. 240 – 280 CE) was a pre-imperial Gupta king in northern India and the founder of the Gupta dynasty. A portion of northern or central Bengal might have been the home of Guptas at that time; however, little evidence is available.The first evidence of Śri Gupta comes from the writings of Yijing around 690 CE who describes that the Poona copper inscription of Prabhavati Gupta, a daughter of Chandragupta, describes "Maharaja Sri-Gupta" as the founder of the Gupta dynasty.