The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.425

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⁵ It occurs in his Haidarâbâd grant, among the passages which mention Narasimha, Mahêndra, Îsvara, and Îsvarapotarâja. The text, as it stands, has ranarasika-srîmad-uru-bala-skandham (for skandhê), which I translated (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI, p. 78) by "having shoulders that delighted in war and were glorious and of great strength." But the compound is an awkward one. And it is plain now that a visarga was omitted, and that the intended reading was Ranarasikah srîmad-uru-bala-skandhah, "Ranarasika, possessed of fine strong shoulders."—The word occurs in the same passage in the spurious Kurtakôti grant.