The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.141

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³ This title occurs, in the present case, in inscriptions at Baḷagâṇve; P. S. and O.-C. Insers. No. 159, line 10, and No. 160, line 11; Mysore Inscriptions, pp. 144, 164.—Mr. Rice, 'rendering the first component of it by 'senior,' seems either to have read heri, or else, reading heri, to have taken it as equivalent to hiri. But in both places, and elsewhere, the originals have distinctly heri (or hêri); and the dictionaries do not give any such variant of hiri.