The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.174
The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.174
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³ e.g., Dr. Hultzsch's South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. pp. 63, 65, Vol. II. p. 8.—According to the Tamil dictionaries, pâdi means (1) 'a village or town,' and (2), 'as in the present case, 'a district or country.' In Kanarese, it appears as vâdi; e.g., in Gangavâdi, in the text above, and in Gondavâdi, Mâsavâdi, Nalavâdi, Nolambavâdi, Ruddavâdi, Sindavâdi, and Tardavâdi. And in Sanskrit records it is occasionally represented by pâti; e.g., Rattapâti (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III. p. 294, and Silâbhânja-pâti (ibid. p. 354).