Adirectory is defined as an organized list of

 A directory is defined as an organized list of people and/or organizations of some type and may include addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. It is also contact information in regard to a specific geographical area. This organized data mainly used to make retrieval of data or reference much easier.

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explanation:

these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india