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³ Nāsik No. 3 in *EI*, viii, 63 contains the term *Dhanakaṭasamanehi*. Its equation with *Dhanakaṭaramanehi* is out of the question for reasons given by Sir R. G. Bhandarkar and Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar (see *EHD*, 3rd edition, p. 30, note 13; *IA*, 1913, p. 280). M. Senart suggested Benakaṭa as an alternative reading for Dhanakaṭ ‘considering the general similarity of *b* and *dh*’. But he himself was not prepared to maintain his suggestion ‘against those who worked from the stone itself’. Hence Sir R. G. Bhandarkar's equation of *Dhanakaṭa-samanehi* with *Dhanakaṭa-sāminehi*, i.e. ‘lord of Dhanakaṭa’, must stand. Dhanakaṭa = Dhanakaṭaka = Dhānyakaṭaka.