The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s3.t2.42

v2.c16.s3.t2.42

The site of the last-named *stupha*, Prinsep identifies with the modern village of Dhauli, where Major Kittoe noticed the remains of ancient buildings and relics which fully justifies the identification. That Dubalabi is a corruption of Sanskrit *Durbala* may be readily accepted. It is of course the same with the modern Hindi *Dublā*. In the Prakrit language medial single consonants generally wear out, leaving only its attached vowel in its place, and the *Dubala* of the Pali would thus become *Du-ala*, in the feminine from *Duali*, whence *Dhauli*. The name of the tope was thus the “shrine of the feeble”:—“Probably a kind of hospital, and if Mr. Kittoe’s conjectures as to the small mortars be correct, it must have been amply provided with medicamentary concoction.”