After the decline of the Guptas, which dynasty emerged with Kannauj as its capital ?
Maukharis
After the Gupta empire declined in the sixth century, north India broke into regional kingdoms, and the dynasty that rose with Kannauj as its capital was the Maukhari line.
The Maukharis ruled from Kanyakubja, modern Kannauj on the Ganga, and rulers such as Ishanavarman took imperial titles and fought the Later Guptas and the Hunas. Their control of Kannauj made the city the political centre of the Ganga plain, which is why Harshavardhana later shifted his own capital there from Thanesar, and why Kannauj became the prize in the tripartite struggle of the eighth and ninth centuries.
The other dynasties ruled elsewhere. The Chalukyas were based at Vatapi in the Deccan, the Rashtrakutas at Manyakheta, also in the Deccan, and the Palas in Bengal and Bihar with capitals such as Pataliputra and Munger.
Hence, the answer is the Maukharis.
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