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[No. 2, 
Note on Budhagupia. 
tenor. The result — and nothing in the inscriptions conflicts with it — is 
A. D. 278. May it not be, I would ask, that we have, in that year, 
the starting-point of the era of the Guptas ? It would not surprise me 
to learn eventually that others shall have seen cause to answer this 
question, propounded in a more positive form, in the affirmative. 
Saugor, April 30, 1861. *■ 
Page 3, foot-notes, 1. 2. Erase the two anuswaras : 1. 30, read bhukta. 
Page 4, foot-notes, 1. 3. Read btmjcti : 1. 37, varshe. 
Page 6, 1. 7. Read nailca — , and cancel part of the foot-note. 
Page 7, 1. 1. Read gartdli : 1. 12, dchchhettd : foot-notes, 1. 11, bhulcte. 
Page 8, 1. 1. Read ‘ sprung from the house of King Parivrajaka,’ as more pro- 
bably correct. 
Page 10, foot-notes, 1. 9. Read panchcbheda, and add atisrishta, avadhyana, 
and dchchlietri. 
Page 11, 1. 10. Read — grdmalcasya. 
Page 12, foot notes, 1. 2. In my MS. were putrena and suryyadatena. I was 
pointing out blunders. 
Page 13, foot notes, 1. 2. Read parichchlieda. L. 8. Supply 8 in the Sanskrit. 
Page 16, foot-notes, 1. 7. The inscriptions are right in having purogabhyah ; 
and I should have translated their common valediction as follows : ‘May happi- 
ness attend all the subjects, to-wit, the kine, the Brahmans, and so forth.’ 
Page 17, 1. 2. Read s' mica. 
Page 18, 1. 2. It ought to have been remarked, that what I read as sansti- 
rablm is doubtful in its penultimate syllable, and very doubtful in its final. If 
right, render ‘ in which is the good land of the gods.’ In the inscription, the 
adjacent word tcdlindi is quite clear. See the Journal of the Royal Asiatic 
Society, Vol. XII., p. 71, foot-note. 
Page 18, 1. 3. Suras' michandre, being followed by a cha, appears very like the 
name of a man. Formerly I read mahdrudra — , but by supplying dra conjec- 
turally. To r the stroke which sometimes expresses n is, however, often affixed 
gratuitously. If we read maharaja — , the sense will be ‘and when Suras'mi- 
chandra possessed, throughout the world, the lustre of a great king.’ Ho may 
have been only a local magnate. 
Page 18, foot-notes, 1. 10. Read ‘ Surashtra.’ 
Page 21, foot-notes, 1. 1. Read tenaiva (sa) hd’vibhalcta-punya-lcriyena, ‘whose 
righteous deeds are not dissociated from his.’ The metaphor is legal. Dhanya- 
vislmu goes on contributing his good works to the fund which he and Matri- 
vishnu once accumulated as partners. 
Page 22, 1. 4. Read ‘ the supreme refuge of the world.’ 
