<P> He certainly faced some of the greatest challenges in the annals of the empire having to contend with the Pushyamitras and the Hunas (a name by which the "White Huns" were known in India). As revealed by the Bhitari pillar inscription of Skandagupta, he defeated the Pushyamitras, a tribe who were settled in central India but then rebelled . </P> <P> (Skandagupta), "whom, when he prepared himself to restore the fallen fortunes of (his) family, a (whole) night was spent on a couch that was the bare earth; and then, having conquered the Pushyamitras, who had developed great power and wealth, he placed (his) left foot on a foot - stool which was the king (of that tribe himself)" </P> <P> He was also faced with invading Indo - Hephthalites or Hunas, probably the Kidarites, from the northwest . Skandagupta had warred against the Huns during the reign of his father, and was celebrated throughout the empire as a great warrior . He crushed the Huna invasion in 455, and managed to keep them at bay . </P> <P> (Skandagupta), "by whose two arms the earth was shaken, when he, the creator (of a disturbance like that) of a terrible whirlpool, joined in close conflict with the Hûnas;...among enemies...arrows...proclaimed...just as if it were the roaring of (the river) Ganga, making itself noticed in (their) ears ." </P>

Which gupta ruler was successful in repulsing the huna attack