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Note on Budhagupta. 
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Note on Budhagupta.— By Fitz-Edwaed Hall, Esq., D. C. L. 
My paper on the inscriptions at Eran, # printed in the last number 
of this Journal, was put together and sent to the press while I was 
travelling on official duty. The present supplement, or, at least, 
the bulk of it, the marginal citations excepted, might have accom- 
panied the substantive article, if, when previously writing, the work 
had been by me, on certain passages of which I am about to make 
a few comments.f 
In the paper adverted to I have said : “ It is, therefore, all but 
demonstrably certain that Budhagupta was reigning on Thursday, 
the seventh of June, in the year of our Lord one hundred and eight, 
* Can this be one of the places to which Junaid despatched an expedition of 
filibusters ? Two of those places, Arm and Malia, are supposed, by M. Reimmd, 
to be Ujjayim and Ivfalava ; and a third looks as if it were Mimdala. But all 
is here exceedingly uncertain. According to Beladorf, the Arabs, in order to 
reach Malia, had to pass through Arm. To take a circuitous route was, perhaps, 
a dictate of prudence. If the second vowel of Arm got shifted, by accident, 
to the front of the first consonant, we may have Eran. See Sir Henry M. Elliot’s 
Appendix to the Arabs in Sind, pp. 205, 206. 
f If I had had access, at the time, to a respectable Sanskrit dictionary, I 
should not have called pitaram anujdtasya a ‘ hoary solecism.’ Messrs. Bolit- 
lingk and Roth, in their Sans/cril-worterbuch, refer, under anujata, to the ensuing 
couplets of the Panchatanlra : 
ofTrr: RiTWSJTrf^ ^ffTSmUslYt^ vf I 
'J -N ^ 
TtTrJTJ-SJWT ofl rt^VTSftrf: fig: Bfl: I 
‘ By those who are acquainted with the scriptures a son is to be understood, 
among men, to b ejata, annjata , atijata , or apajata. 
‘He whose qualities are similar to his mother’s is a jata; an anujata resem- 
bles, in qualities , his father ; an atijata surpasses him in the same respect ; and 
an apajata is, in comparison , utterly base.’ 
Messrs. B. and 11. render jdta, as it occurs above, by schlechtweg nur geborner . 
Professor Benfey gives geburt 9 in his translation of the P anchatantra, Yol. II., 
p. 113. 
Anujata appears to be a synonyme of manojavasa and pitrisannihha 9 which 
Professor Wilson erroneously defines by “fatherly.” Kslnra {Svvamin’s expla- 
nation is pileva samgalc vibhati , 
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