316 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
prove that he ruled for about twenty years (A.D. 477, 
. Welearn from Hiuen Tsang aoe he was a son of 
srediiys The only nares of Budha Gupta who had 
that title was Kumara Gupta I Mahendraditya ( Mahendra = 
Sakra). It seems rakatis: ee Budha Gupta was the young- 
est son of the emperor Kumara Gupta I, and consequently 
a — or na brother of Skanda Gupta and Pura Gupta. 
(northern and part of eastern Bengal) which was governed by 
the viceroys (Uparika Maharaja) Brahmadatta and Jayadatta. 
The Sarnath Buddhist Image Inscription of the Gupta year 157 
(A.D. 476-77) proves his possession of the Kasi country. 
years se (A.D. 484-85) the erection of a Dhvaja stambha 
aja Matrivishnu, ruler of the Arikina Vishaya 
e Eran in the Sagar District ), and his brother Dhanyavishnu 
while Budha Gupta was Yebning and Surasmichandra was go- 
verning the land between the Kalindi and the Narmada,” indi- 
cates that Budha Gupta’s dominions included Central India as 
well as Kasi and Bengal. 
The coins of this emperor are dated in the year 175=A.D. 
495-68 They continue the types of the Gupta silver coinage ; 
their legend is the claim to be lord of the earth and to have 
sere heaven, found on the coins of Kumara Gupta I and Skanda 
According to Hiuen Tsang Budha Gupta was succeeded by 
Tathagata Gupta, after whom Baladitya succeeded to the 
— . 
t this period the supremacy of the Guptas in — 
India was challenged by the Hun king Toramana. 
have seen that in A.D. 484-485 a Maharaja named Matrivi- 
shnu ruled in the Arikina Vishaya as a vassal of the emperor 
Budha Gupta, but after his death his younger cosecgrnad Dhanya- 
vishnu acknowledged the ances 4 of Toramana. 
The success of the Huns in Central India was, however, 
short lived. In the year 191, i.e. A.D. 510-11, we find a general 
named Goparaja fighting by the side of a Gupta king at Arikina ° 
and king Hastin of the neighbouring province of Dabhala 
acknowledging the sovereignty of the Guptas.’| In 199 (A.D. 
518) the suzerainty of the Guptas is acknowledged in the 
Tripurivishaya.’ In the year 309 (A.D. 528-29) the Pie dy 
: Edited by Aah Radhagovinda Basak. 
2 Fleet, C. L1I., p. 
§ Allan Catalog of ‘the Coins of the — Ai aorta p. lxii. 
4 Beal, "Si-yu ki, II, aa Say the Life, p. 
; Fleet, hg 2 #, pp. 
Op. cit., p. 107. 
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