The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.66

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⁸ Mr. Rice here gives ‘Veṅgiri.’ In his Inscriptions at Sravaṇa-Belgola, he gives the same form in No. 138; but ‘Beṅgiri’ in No. 144, and in Mysore Inscriptions, p. 308. I myself adopted, from him, these two alternative forms. But looking again at the photograph of the Sinda record at Paṭṭadakal (P. S. and O.-C. Inscrs. No. 67, line 27), where, alone, the first syllable is quite distinct, I think the name must be read ‘Chengiri,’ as it was originally taken by me (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As Soc. Vol. XI. pp. 261, 270). In the earlier Kanarese characters, ch and b are sometimes very liable to confusion. But here there is a very marked difference between the ch in Chem-giri-Chêra-Chôḷa and the b in Noḷambavâḍi-Baṇavâse-Kaḍambale in the next line.