Indian Epigraphy c16.s8.4

c16.s8.4

and *chimpaya* meaning ‘a dyer of clothes’. Sometimes Prakrit words were wrongly Sanskritised. Reference may be made in this connection to *utkṛṣṭi* derived from Prakrit *ukkuṭṭhi* (*Sanskrit utkrośa*) meaning ‘wailing’.¹ Similar is the case with *dheṅku-kaḍḍhaka* and *nīla-ḍumphaka* which appear to have been imperfectly Sanskritised.²