^{page 488 note 1} Sometimes a shorter form of the term, viz. bhū-cchidra , is used in its stead.

^{page 488 note 2} Kṛṣyayogyā = Kṛṣi + ayogyā = “ unfit to be cultivated ” : it is a pity that neither Dr. Bühler nor Dr. Fleet could detect the sandhi in in the text of the Vaijayantī. Dr. Oppert, however, in the Vocabulary appended to his Edition of the Vaijayantī (Madras, 1893) rightly translates as “ field unfit for cultivation ”.

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^{page 489 note 1} The technical meaning may also be due to the second meaning (i.e. ), as unproductiveness is surely a fault of the land.

^{page 489 note 2} The inscriptions in the plate have been sent to the Epigraphia Indica for publication and will shortly be out.