BU´DII(Βούδιοι, Hdt. 1.101; Steph. B.). Herodotus mentions among the tribes by whom Media was inhabited the Budii and the Busae. (Βουσαί : see also Steph. s. v.) It is quite uncertain in what part of that country they dwelt. Ritter ( Erdk. vol. ii. pp. 896, 799, 902) conjectures that they, as well as the Magi, belonged to the Priest-caste, supposing them (though without any apparent reason) to have been worshippers of Buddha.
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