Note 21 — CHAPTER 13
Reading edition
[Dr. F. W. Thomas has kindly traced this word. It is the old nisīdhyā (nisīhiyā), in its modern form nisīdhi or nisidhi, an ornamental Jain tomb. See Epigraphia Indica, ii. 274, with Bühler’s note; Rice, Inscriptions at Sravana Belgola, Archaeological Survey of Mysore, 1889, 35, 40.]