Explanation:

It provides very specific details of Samudragupta’s military achievements and conquests from which it is possible to delineate the extent of his empire. It also presents the Gupta Empire as the centre of a complex network of political relationships.
Samudragupta’s initial military campaigns were directed towards areas that lay immediately beyond his control.
For e.g. Line 14 of the inscription refers to Samudragupta capturing a king of the Kota family, while Line 21 talks of him violently destroying several kings of Aryavarta and subordinating all the forest kings.
The territories of the kings mentioned in these two lines seem to have been annexed, leading to an extension of the Gupta empire over the Ganga-Yamuna valley up to Mathura and Padmavati (Pawaya) in the west.