Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.79
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³ Ibid., Vol. XXXIII, p. 4, note 2. The Vijayanagara kings are believed to have been famous as *Aśvapati* just as the later Imperial Gangas of Orissa and their successors became celebrated as *Gajapati* (*IHQ*, Vol. XXXIII, p. 275). For the conception of *Gajapati* in the south (India), *Ratnapati* in the west (Persia), *Aśvapati* in the north (Turk or Hun) and *Narapati* in the west (China), see P. C. Bagchi, *Twelve Years of Wandering of Buddha*, offprint, pp. 19 ff.; Watters, *On Yuan Chwang’s Travels in India*, Vol. I, pp. 35 ff.