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BUDHA GUPTA AND GHATOTKACHA GUPTA 571
The use of terms conveying the same meaning as titles and epithets was not unknown in the Gupta period. Vikramāditya was also called Vikramūnka. Skanda Gupta is called both Vikramāditya and Kramāditya, both the words meaning "puissant like the sun" or "striding like the sun.” If Śakrāditya of Hiuen Tsang be identical with Mahendrāditya or Kumāra I, Buddha Gupta' was closely related to Kumāra. Another member of Kumara's family was possibly Ghatotkacha Gupta. ?
1 Recent discoveries show that Budha Gupta was really a grandson (not a son) of Kumara Gupta I. The Chinese pilgrim may have failed to distinguish between a son and a grandson. Cf. The Kopparam plates where Pulakesin II is represented as a grandson of Kirtivarman 1. But he was really the son of the latter. It is also possible that Śakrāditya was an epithet of Purugupta, the father of Budha.
2 The Tumain Inscription referred to by Mr. Garde ; cf. also the Basarh seal mentioning Sri Ghatotkacha Gupta. The exact relationship with Kumāra is, however, not stated in the inscription.
