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gupta

guptá mfn. protected, guarded, preserved, [AV.] &c.

hidden, concealed, kept secret, secret, [Bhartṛ.]; [Pañcat.]; [Kathās.] &c. (with daṇḍa, a secret fine, fine secretly imposed or exacted, [Hit.]; cf. gūḍha-d°)

= saṃgata (? joined, combined), [W.]

guptá (as), m. ([Pāṇ. vi, 1, 205], [Kāś.]) N. of several men belonging to the Vaiśya caste ([PārGṛ. i, 17]; cf. [RTL. p. 358]), especially of the founder of the renowned Gupta dynasty in which the names of the sovereigns generally end in (cf. candra-, samudra-, skanda-; is also often found ifc. in names of the Vaiśya class)

m. (also) the era named after the Gupta dynasty (beginning, A.D. 319; hence the Gupta year 165 corresponds to, A.D. 484-85; in later times the years are called valabhī-saṃvat from the rulers of Valabhi, and the era is spoken of as the Gupta-Valabhi era).