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Well, the question is: Is the form Dandi more preferable than Dandin? In my opinon, it is not.

Why? Dandi in Sanskrit is the nominative singular of the stem form Dandin. However, it is quite common in Western language works on Indian literature to use the stem form, that is Dandin. Look into the standard reference works of Sanskrit literature, e.g. Arthur A. MacDonell: "A history of Sanskrit literature", London 1900 (often reprinted)

Moriz Winternitz: "Geschichte der indischen Litteratur", Leipzig 1908-20, 3 vols. (Engl. transl. under the title: "A history of Indian literature", 1927-33, often reprinted)

Arthur B. Keith: "A history of Sanskrit literature", Oxford 1928

Surendranath Dasgupta: "A history of Sanskrit literature: classical period", 2nd ed., Calcutta 1962

Helmuth von Glasenapp: "Die Literaturen Indiens", Stuttgart 1961

and many others.

One point more: If you dare changing Dandin into Dandi than it would logically involve to change all occurrences of Sanskrit names and titles in the Wikipedia into the nominative singular forms, too. Look into the Wikipedia article | Sanskrit Literature; you have to change Ramayana into Rāmāyaṇam, Mahabharata into Mahābhāratam, Valmiki into Vālmīkiḥ, Rama into Rãmaḥ, Ravana into Rāvaṇaḥ, Panini into Pāṇiniḥ, Bhasa into Bhāsaḥ, Kalidasa into Kālidāsaḥ and so on. I have used UTF-8 encoding here for the diacritics; without diacritics it would look like Ramayanam, Mahabharatam, Ramah, Ravanah, Paninih, Bhasah, Kalidasah.

If you write in an Indian language like Sanskrit than you may use the nominative form, i.e. Daṇḍī, because it is the custom there to use an inflected form of a name. Modern Indian languages like Hindi, Bengali, Marathi stick generally to this custom and use the nominative. But here we are in the English language Wikipedia! So let's stay with English language customs.

Let's sum up: 1. Dandin is used in nearly all Western language reference works (I have named only a few here). 2. Switching to Dandi would involve changing a lot of other entries, too. 3. English language custom of using Sanskrit terms.

Bye Peter

I agree with Peter's argument above wholeheartedly. I would even take out "Sri" from the title. Gomukha.

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