Iron in Ancient India c6.s4.6

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¹ Vincent Smith: Journal, Royal Asiatic Society, 1897, p. 6. Vincent Smith writes: "The word bhāvēna, which we translate 'in faith,' is actually dhāvēna. The earlier translators regarded this word as a proper name, and supposed the name of the king commemorated to be Dhāva. But the construction of the sentence scarcely admits of this interpretation. The use of the two names Dhāva and Chandra for the one person in such a brief record, without a word of explanation or amplification, would be intolerably harsh composition, and it is to my mind quite incredible that the writer intended to give the king two names. The correction from dhāvēna to bhāvēna appears to be both necessary and certain. The error is easily explained by the fact that a very slight slip of the engraver's tool was sufficient to convert the character used for bh into a form which may be read as dh."