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² Bhojas, probably in Berār (Ilichpur, see Collins on *Daśakumāracharita*, and *Bomb. Gaz.* (1896), vol. i, pt. ii, p. 27); Pulindas, among the Vindhya hills near the Narmadā (ibid., p. 138). But the term Pulinda was used vaguely, and sometimes meant Himalayan tribes (*J. R. A. S.*, 1908, p. 315). D. R. Bhandarkar, 'Dekkan of the Sātavāhana Period' (*Ind. Ant.*, xlviii, June, 1919), suggests that *pitēnikas* or *pitinikas*, which is associated with *Rāshtrikas* in Rock Edict V and with *Bhojas* in Rock Edict XIII, is really an adjective signifying 'one who enjoys property given by (his) father', and therefore that the Rashtrikas or Rathis and the Bhojas were feudatory chieftains who had obtained independence and become hereditary rulers. The word may, however, signify merely 'residents of Paithan' (on the Godāvarī).