
Gupta surname is used by many persons of Vaishay (Bania or Vanik) comunity, irrespective of theri actua Gotra. They are also deceondents of Maharaja Agrasen
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Balázs Déri's opinion :
Founders of Gupta Empire as well as consequently possible ancestors of some Gupta families might have com from the city on the Holy Land called A-Gawa-Wap-Pat-Tek-Ha'ella belonging to the tribe of Ze-Be-Laya-Na that is to Belize inhabited by people now called maya .
Some of them might have got on the occasion of the exile of the Country to India and to Aigypt ( A-wayak-Gawa-e-Wap-Pat ) named also of that entity ,where their ancestors had come from, and where they had been living between about 2096 and 1666 b.c. for 430 years anyway .
Patagonia might have first inhabited by them also : Pat-A-Gawa .
Jews and christians call them though Gey-Yiftakh-'El and Zebulon .
See Rosenfeld,Demsky,Beleznay,Groza,Szerdahelyi,Bagratuni !