BUDH, an ancestor of a branch of the great Hindu people of a time prior to authentic history. He is traced by them up to Brahma, from whom he descends through Atri, Samudra, Chandra, or Soma, and Vrihashpati. Budh is said to have married Ha, daughter of Ikshwaku ; and the descendants of this union were, iu succession, Pururava, Ayu or Yaou, Nohas or Nohus, and Yayat. Ayu or Yaou is claimed by the Tartar and Chinese genealogists as their great progenitor; and from Yayat sprang three great lines, the Yadu, Puru, and Oora or Oorvasa, from each of whom came many dynasties ruling on the Indus, in Hindustan, Assam, Ava, and China. The great Hya was a branch of the Yadu ; and five members of it formed Panchalika or Panchaldesa, and the seed of Bajaswa occupied all the countries on the Indus. Of the three lines, the Yadu, Puru, and Oora, the Yadu became the most illustrious. The descendants of Budh and Ila were known as the Chandravansa, Somavansa, or Induvansa, all of these meaning the Lunar race ; but the fame of the Yadu eclipsed the prior designations, and throughout India the Lunar race came to be styled Yaduvansa. The Yadu held territories in Hindustan about Allahabad, but seemingly in small republican states, some of which were staked and lost at play. The relatives then fought for dominion, for eighteen days, on the field of Kuru Khet. There was no battle of armies, but a series of single combats, with treacherous, cruel surprises, during which nearly all the Yadu fell, and at the close, several of those remaining emigrated, amongst whom Krishna was one. The story is told in the Mahabharata. After the combats, the Yadu seem to have left the Ganges, and to have been expelled from Dwarica, to have crossed the Indus, passed Zabulisthan, and founded Gajni and Samar cand, but to have swept back on the Indus into Gujerat and the Indian desert, from which they expelled the Langalm, Johya, Mohila, etc., and founded successfully Tannote, Derrawul, and Jeysulmir. They are now known as the Bhatti of Jeysulmir, the Jharijah of Cuteh Bliooj, the tribes occupying Kerrowlee and Subbulghur on the Chambal, and the Sumaitcha on the Chambal.
The great Tuar tribe are also said to have been of Yadu origin. The Ilya also was a branch of the Yadu, some of whom formed Panchaldesa or Panchalika, and the seed of Bajeswa at one time occupied all the countries on the Indus. The Bhatti and Jharijah thus trace their descent from Budh and Krishna, and they may be said to occupy the Indian desert from the Sutlej to the ocean. Budh seems to have been the first emigrant from Sakadwipa or Scythia, into Hindustan, viz. about B.C. 2100. Between Budh and Krishna was pbriod of 1200 years. But his descendants had deified Budh • and in Hindu mythology he is described as the son of Soma or Chandra or Indu, the moon, by Rohini. The date of the apotheosis of Budh is not known. Prior to the deification of Krishna, Budh was worshipped by all the Yadu as the great ancestor (Pitriswara) of the Lunar race. The principal shrine of Budh was at Dwarica, where he still receives adoration as Budha Trivikrama. But by the deification of Krishna, whose emblem was the eagle, Krishna's mysteries superseded the simpler worship of Budh. The worship of Bal, or the sun, as Bal nath, and of the moon as that of Budh, seem to have co-existed, and an amalgamation had occurred, as the serpent was made to twine round the lingatn, as at the shrine of Eklinga. Colonel Tod is of opinion that the original worship of Budh was monotheistic, and that prior to the rise of Vishnuism; the three idolatrous classes of Hindustan were the adorers of Surya and the descendants of Budh, who preserved the serpent sign of their race, and Krishna's followers, who adopted the eagle. There seem to have been 56 clans of the Indu, who were distinguished by names of animals,—takshac, the serpent ; aswa, the horse ; sassu, the hare ; lomri or nomri, the fox, etc. etc.—Tod's .Rajasthan, i. pp. 533-536.