The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.133

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⁴ *TKA*, Bulak, 1874, Vol. IX, pp. 115-16; see also edition by Tornberg published in 1863, Vol. IX, p. 218. This edition also gives the name as بيدا. But the editor notices a variant in some MSS. as Bandā بندا which may have been mistaken in the earlier Persian chronicles as Nandā. The published edition of *KZA* (ed. by Muhammad Nazim, Berlin, 1928, p. 76) gives the name as نندا. This was perhaps the original source of Niẓām ud-Dīn. The stages of corruption were probably therefore : (1) بیدا (2) بندا (3) نندا. On enquiry I find that even now in many parts of Bundelkhand the popular way of pronouncing *yā* sounds after dentals is simply by an *ā*. Thus they would pronounce *pratyākhyāna* as *patākhān*, and not *patiakhian*, as is done in many parts of U. P. That the Muslims followed the popular pronunciation of names and not the Sanskritic pronunciation of the Pandits is shown by the fact that Birūnī gives the name of the capital of Gaṅgeya as *Tiaurī*, the predecessor of the modern *Tewar*, and not *Tripurī*. See *KH*, Trans. by Sachau, Vol. I, p. 202.