The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s5.17

c8.s5.17

The Paṇḍit translates this:—“Before him was the illustrious king Vaddiga, a Hari on earth; and therefore he was exactly like the illustrious good Bhillama in his actions.” I have already remarked that instead of “before him,” we should have “after him” here. The word तस्मात् is translated by “therefore.” “Wherefore?” I would ask. No reason is given in the first of these lines for his being *exactly like* Bhillama; and therefore, it will not do to translate तस्मात् by “therefore.” . Again, the Paṇḍit’s interpretation of प्रत्यक्षधर्मा as “exactly like in actions” is farfetched and unnatural. The thing is, the genitive or ablative क्षितिप्तेः cannot be connected with any word in the line, and is therefore one of the innumerable mistakes which we have in this grant and most of which have been pointed out by the Paṇḍit himself. What is wanted here is the nominative क्षितिपतिः for क्षितिप्तेः and then the whole is appropriate, and तस्मात् will have its proper sense of “after him,” or “from him.”