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SECTION V. SUCCESSORS OF Budha GUPTA. · According to the Life of Hiuen Tsang Budha Gupta was succeeded by Tathāgata Gupta, after whom Bālāditya succeeded to the empire. At this period the supremacy of the Guptas in Central India was challenged by the Hun king Toramāṇa. We have seen that in A.D. 484-85 a Mahārāja named Mātřivishņu ruled in the Airikiņa Vishaya (Eran in Eastern Mālwa, now in the Saugor District of the Central Provinces) as a vassal of the emperor Budha Gupta. But after his death his younger brother Dhanyavishņu transferred his allegiance to Toramāņa. The success of the Huns in Central India was, however, short-lived. In 510-11 we find a general named Goparāja fighting by the side of a Gupta king at Eran and king Hastin of the neighbouring province of Dabhālā to the south-east of Eran acknowledging the sovereignty of the Guptas. In A. D. 518 the suzerainty of the Guptas is acknowledged in the Tripuri vishaya (Jubbalpore District). In the year 528-29 the Gupta sway was still acknowledged by the ParivrājakaMahārāja of Dabhālā. The Parivrājakas Hastin and Sam kshobha seem to have been the bulwarks of the Gupta empire in the northern part of the present Central Provinces. The Harsha-charita of Bāņa recognises the possession of Mālava, possibly Eastern Mālwa, by the Guptas as late as the time of Prabhākara-vardhana (cir. A.D. 600). There can be no doubt that the expulsion of the Huns from parts of Central India was final. 2 The recovery of the Central Provinces was probably
1 Beal, Si-yu-ki, II, p. 168 ; the Life, p. 111. 2 For the survival of the Hụns in the Malwa region, See Bp. Ind. xxiii. 102.
