Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c11.32

c11.32

¹⁸ No 19, Jour B B R A A S, Vol VI and Vol XII, p 409 In the first copy the name is clearly Sakasenasa, but in the second, which is Paṇḍıt Bhagvânlâl's rubbing, something like an effaced mark for the vowel *i* appears above the first two consonants The Paṇḍıt, therefore, reads the name as Sırısenasa for Śrîsenasya, but the *k* is dıstınct even in his copy *Siki* cannot mean anything, wherefore it appears that the indistinct marks which do not occur in the first copy are due to some flaw in the rock, and do not represent the vowel *i* Dr Bhâu Dâjı also read the name as Sakasenasa But the copy of the inscription given in Plate LI Vol V of the Archæological Survey of Western Indıa and marked No 14 leaves no doubt whatever on the point The name there is dıstınctly Sakasenasa Further confirmation if necessary will be found later on It is therefore clearly a mıstake to call the kıng *Sırisena*.