The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.247

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⁴ In line 9 of the present grant, the *biruda* is distinctly Dhârâśraya, with the long *â* in the first syllable (see the Plate); and it was so given by Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji in his reading of the text, though in his remarks he substituted the short *a* (in his translation, the *biruda* is omitted). But, in lines 13, 17, of the Surat and Nausârî grants of Śryâśraya-Śilâditya and Avanijanâśraya-Pulikêśin (*Proceedings of the Aryan Section of the Seventh International Congress of Orientalists*, p. 211 ff.; see the Plates), it is distinctly Dharâśraya, with the short *a*. And Dharâśraya, ‘asylum of the earth,’ seems a more probable appellation than Dhârâśraya, ‘asylum of the sword-edge,’ or ‘he whose refuge is the sword-edge.’—In the Nirpan grant, also (see page 357 above), the *biruda* of the Jayasimhavarman who is there mentioned is distinctly Dharâśraya, with the short *a* (see the Plate).