Note 9 — CHAPTER 2
Reading edition
Bappa is not a proper name, it signifies merely a ‘child.’ [This is wrong: it is the old Prākrit form of bāp, ‘father’ (IA, xv. 275 f.; BG, i. Part i. 84).] He is frequently styled Saila, and in inscriptions Sailadīsa, ‘the mountain lord.’