The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.83

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² Arch. Surv. of West. Ind. No. 10; Bhâjâ No. 2; Beḍsâ No. 2; Kârli Nos. 2 and 14. Pandit Bhagavânlâl appears to me clearly wrong here in taking Mahâraṭhi to be equal to the Sk. Mahâraṭhi and translating it as "a great warrior," for in Beḍsâ No. 2, a woman is called Mahâraṭhiṇî where the word certainly cannot mean a great warrior, and to interpret it as "the wife or daughter of a great warrior" is simply begging the question. Mahâraṭhi appears clearly to be the name of a tribe and is the same as our modern Marâṭhâ. It will appear from this inscription that there were intermarriages between the Mahâbhojas and the Mahâraṭhis, for the lady mentioned in this inscription was the daughter of a Mahâbhoja and a Mahâraṭhiṇî or the wife of a Mahâraṭhi.