A third possible translation, taken literally from the Hindu word ''dosh'' (meaning in this case guilt), defines ''doshi'' as someone who has been found guilty of a crime. A historical anecdote uses this definition of the word to explain how people assumed the name. According to Kishor Doshi, former President of the Houston Jain Society, the research he has done on this topic indicates ''Doshi'' was a last name given by a sixteenth century king in Gujarat to all of his subjects who did not participate in a compulsory census. He pronounced them guilty, or in Gujarati , ''doshi theravya''.
Finally, an old woman is also known as a ''Doshi''. A family that had an elderly matriarch at the time when family surnames (as opposed to caste-based surnames) first started appearing in Gujarat might thus have been distinguished from other families with the same caste-based surname
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