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Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c22.s2.7

Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c22.s2.7

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c22.s2.7

² *Fo-to-kio-to*. Beal, Fleet and Watters render the term by Buddha Gupta, a name unknown to imperial Gupta epigraphy. The synchronism of his second successor Bālāditya with Mihirakula proves that Budha Gupta is meant. We have other instances of corruption of names, *e.g.*, Skanda is transformed into Skandha in several Purāṇic lists of the so-called Andhra dynasty.