The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.75
The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.75
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⁵ See Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. pp. 305, 307. The title means literally ‘great king.’—The actual expressions are, Mahârâja in the earlier grant, and dharma-Mahârâja in the other. The latter means “a Mahârâja by, or in respect of, religion,” and may be rendered by “a pious, or righteous, Mahârâja.” But what it actually denotes is, “a Mahârâja who, at the particular time of the record, was engaged in an act of religion dharma.”