The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.28

v2.c30.s4.28

Vairisiṁha II was succeeded by his son Harṣa, *alias* Sīyaka II, who according to Bühler was also known as Siṁhabhaṭa in Merutuṅga’s *Prabandhacintāmaṇi*. He accordingly made the plausible suggestion that “the complete name probably was Harṣa-siṁha (*Harakhsingh*), both parts of which were used as abbreviations, instead of the whole. The form Sīyaka is a half Prakṛtic corruption of Siṁhaka. For in modern Gujarātī and other dialects the termination of *Siṁha* becomes in names not only *Siṅgh* or *Saṅgh*, but very commonly *Sī*, which is immediately derived from the Prākṛt Sīha. Thus we find *Padamsī* instead of *Padmasiṁha*, *Narsī* for *Narasiṁha*, *Arsī* for *Arisiṁha*, *Amarsī* for *Amarasiṁha*.’¹ As against this view it must be pointed out that the name given by Merutuṅga is not *Siṁhabhaṭa*, but *Siṁhadantabhaṭa*. Bühler rejected this reading of the name given by Pandit Rāmchandra² but Tawney in his translation of Merutuṅga’s work, published in 1901, retains it.³