[^6] It is now almost certain that Yudhasaf is a corruption of Budhastav...

[^6] It is now almost certain that Yudhasaf is a corruption of Budhastav, the title of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Bhuddhism. [^7] Vide al-Muyamu '1-mufahris, by Muhammad Fu'ad `Abdu'1-Baqi. [^8] In the printed copy of at-Tafsîr of al-`Ayyâshî (vol. 1, p.49) and what has been quoted from him in al-Bihâr (vol. 15, p.226), al-Burhân (vol.1, p.128) and Majma'u '1-bayAn (vol. 1, p.158) the name has ap­peared as Hadâd. But we could not find such a name in geographical dic­tionaries.

Perhaps it is a corruption of Hadad which is a mountain over­looking Taymâ'; (see Makamu '1-bayânn, vol. 2, p. 229; al -Qâmûs, vol. 1, p. 287 and Tâju '1-'arûs, vol. 2, p. 333) or it may be another reading of Hadad. (ed.) [^9] (at -Tubba`) was the title of the kings of Yemen. [^10] The sentences in parenthesis are not in al-Mîzân. They have been added from the quotation of al-`Ayyâshî, given in Bîharu '1-anwâr, vol. 15, p.226. (m)…