Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c11.22

c11.22

¹³ Paṇḍit Bhagvânlâl and Dr Bühler, whose transcripts and translations of the Nâsik inscriptions were published about ten years after mine, read the expression thus understood by me as धनकटसमनेहि for the Sanskrit धनकटश्रमणे But what the Śramaṇas or Buddhist priests of Dhanakaṭa, which was situated hundreds of miles away on the lower Krishṇâ, could have to do with the matter of the granting of a village near Nâsik to the Bhadrâyanîya mendicants of the place it is impossible to conceive The expression must, I think, be taken as धनकटसामिनेहि for the Sanskrit धनकटस्वामिभि or धनकटसामियेहि corresponding to महासामियेहि in the first part of No 25, the Sanskrit of which is महास्वामिकै The form सामिनेहि must have come into use on the analogy of such forms as अत्तेनहि for आत्मभि and राजानेहि for राजभि