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1861.] Note on Budhagupta. 
Buddhagupta is genealogized, he would have seen reason for relegating 
that pious prince, on the faith of the Chinese traveller, to a hundred 
years, at the very least, prior to the beginning of the Christian era : 
and he has determined him to A. D. 490.* That the Buddhist 
G-upta kings once had existence, we are warranted, on the faith of 
Hiouen-Thsang, in believing ; but, until fresh information emerges, 
we shall be sufficiently secure in regarding them as a race of provincial 
rulers, whom, memorable, or immemorable, Indian tradition has long 
consigned to oblivion. 
For amendment of most of the minor errors, not already noticed, 
into which Professor Lassen has fallen, the reader may turn to the 
paper which these pages serve to complete. The Eran column is 
dated on the twelfthf of the month, not on the thirteenth : we owe 
it to Matrivishnu and Dhanyavishnu, not to the ideal Vaidalavishnu : 
Eran is not in Malava, and probably never was ; nor is it near 
Saugor, but about fifty miles distant, on the river Vena, now Bma. 
In all these instances, it is just to observe, the Professor was misled 
by Mr. Prinsep. 
But, parenthetically, the writer would earnestly deprecate the result, 
from the strictures here recorded, of a sweeping undervaluation of 
the volumes in which he has here and there espied a blemish. A 
most favourable judgment has heen passed, by Professor Max Muller, 
on the IndiscJie AlterthumsTcwn.de, of which he says : “ Professor 
Lassen, in his work on Indian Antiquities, now in course of publi- 
cation, is giving a resume of the combined labours of Indian philo- 
* Hiouen-Thsang first specifies five kings, of whom the second is Buddha- 
gupta. After a lapse of some time was a sixth, who built a monastery, which, 
with five others, he combined into a grand whole. Of this establishment the 
pilgrim says : “ Depuis sept cents ans que ee couvent existe, nul homine n’a jamais 
enfreint les regies de la discipline.” Voyages des Pelerins Bonddhistes, Yol. I., 
pp. 150 — 152. But there is nothing of this duration in Vol. III., where one 
would naturally look for additions. 
Now, Hiouen-Thsang was in India from A. D. 629 to 645. To reach Buddha- 
gupta we are, then, to recede seven centuries and at least four generations. 
A short distance after the extract just quoted, at p. 154, is an interesting 
passage about an attempt made by one STigupta on tile life of Buddha or S'akya- 
muni. Also see Yol. III., p. 18. 
f Mr. Prinsep lias “thirteenth” in his translation, and “fourteenth” in his 
summary of it, 
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