The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.47

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² This statement also appears in the Bâdâmi cave-inscription, and is repeated in all the subsequent records of a formal kind.—As in the Eastern Chalukya records (see Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 96, note 11), so also in the western records we find variants of the first component of the word Hâritîputra. The earliest and most usual form is 'Hâritî:' it occurs in the Bâdâmi cave-inscription; and other instances are found in Ind. Ant. Vol. VII, pp. 161, 163, Vol. VIII, pp. 26 (see the lithograph), 44, Vol. IX. pp. 126, 130, Vol. XIX. pp. 16, 149, and Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVI. pp. 233, 235, 238, 242. 'Hâritt' occurs in the Haidarâbâd grant of Pulikêśin II., of A.D. 612 (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 73), and in four or five other places. 'Hâriti' occurs in the Chiplûṇ grant of about the same period (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III. p. 50). The 'Hariti' of the Nerûr grant of Vijayâditya (id. Vol. IX. p. 133) is only due to a mistake of the writer or the engraver, in one detail if not in two. The Lakshmêshwar inscription, which was put on the stone after A. D. 967, gives 'Hâriti;' but it is not to be relied in a detail of this sort.—It is plain that, though 'Hâritîputra' may be more correct grammatically, 'Hârittîputra' is the standard form in the Chalukya records, as in also the Kadamba records.—For the gôtra-name itself, see page 277 above, note 5.