The Vakataka, an Indian dynasty which has ruled parts of today's Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh from the third century, are the most important successor dynasty of the Satavahanas, contemporaneous with the Gupta.

Even Samudragupta (335-380), the great conqueror of the Gupta, seems to have avoided a war with the Vakataka.

The Rudradeva in Samadragupta's victory inscription of Allahabad may be Pravarasena I's son Rudrasena I (330-355).

But from this, Samadragupta would have garnered no lasting success.

Rudrasena I had a son named Prithvisena I (355-380), and Prithvisena I had a son named Rudrasena II.

In the late fourth century, the state seems to have occasionally divided.

Rudrasena II (380-385) had married Prabhavatigupta, the daughter of the Gupta King Chandragupta II (375-413/15) and died after a very short reign in 385 CE, following which Prabhavatigupta rules as a regent on behalf of her two sons, Divakarsena and Damodarsena (Pravarsena II).

During this period the Vakataka realm is practically a part of the Gupta empire, and many historians refer to this period as the Vakataka-Gupta age.