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¹ See also Bühler, *Ep. Ind.*, I, p. 70; C. V. Vaidya, *H. M. H. I.*, Vol. I, p. 35. Devagupta appears to have been a scion of the later Gupta family, but we do not know with certitude what relationship he bore to Mahāsenagupta (*see supra*). According to Dr. Hoernle it was the Emperor Śīlāditya of Western Malwa, son of Yaśodharman, who was defeated by Rājya (*J. R. A. S.*, 1903, p. 559), and Dr. R. K. Mookerji subscribes to the same view (*Harṣa*, pp. 16, 62). It seems, however, inexplicable how, if Śīlāditya was the principal opponent, his name is omitted in the Madhuban and Banskhera inscriptions and left to be implied by the vague term “others.”