Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c11.s2.t3.34

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² Fleet has explained some of these terms thus: "I have shown that 'kampaṇa' is a convertible term with 'bāḍa' in its second meaning of a circle if towns constituting an administrative post . . . 'Bāḍa' is a Tadbhava corruption of the Sanskrit 'vāṭa', enclosure of a town or village, fence, wall, hedge, etc., occurs here in its first meaning of a town; it occurs frequently as 'wāḍ' as the termination of modern names of villages. 'Kampaṇa' is probably another form of the Canarese 'kampaḷa, kampiḷu', a cluster, heap, assemblage, multitude........." I.A. IV., p. 211, n.; see also p. 329, n. Dr. L. D. Barnett suggests the following as regards Fleet's interpretation of 'bāḍa'. "This may be doubted. वढ is certainly used in Sanskrit and may be from the root वृ; but the ending वाट is more likely to be from Dravidian pāḍu, and is commonly turned into Sanskrit पाटक."