Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[Brzam, 1873.
चानुमंता च तान्येव नरक वसेत् । स्वदत्ता परबत्ता वा यो हरेतु [] वसुंधरा गर्वा शतसहस्रस्व हन्तुः माप्रति किलिप ॥ विध्याटवीण्वतीया[स] शुष्ककोटरवासिनः । महाहयो दि जायते ब्रह्मवायापहारिणः ॥ यानीह दवानि पुरा नरेन्द्रदानानि धम्मात्ययशस्कराणि । निम्मान्यातपतिमानि तानि कोनाम साधुः पुनराददाच ॥ इतिकमलदला बुर्विदुलोला श्रियमनुचित्य मनुष्यजीवितं च ॥ सकलमिदमुदाहतं च दुजा न हि पुरुषः परकायो विलोप्याः ॥ पंचाशीच्या युवेतीले समानां शतपंचके । गौप्त ददावदो नृपः सोपरागेकमंडले ॥ लसद्वर्णालीक समुचितपदन्यासचिर सदाचायनायं नृगनहि]षकल्पस्य नृपतेः । मुखस्थेनाभातं द्विजमि. शिवस्वस्तिवचसा लिख जनाग्योद[] शुचितार मना[] शासनमिति संवत् ५८५ फाल्गुनसाद ५ स्वहस्तोयं श्रीजाईवस्य शकरसतदेहमानो] स्किरि ॥६॥ TRANSLATION.
mentioned by the Munis Vyåss and others, they [IT] is given by pouring water to the Brah- should, at our repeated solicitations, remember mans—and Jaijaka, the sons of Sihaditya, this saying of the authors of the Smritis :--The residing in the-hman Agrahara, of the San- grantor of land dwells in Heaven for sixty dilya gotra and student of the Maitrậyanîya thousand years; while he who resumes it, or [så khá), to be enjoyed by their descendants as approves of its being so resumed, dwells in long as the moon, the sun, and the oceans hell for as many years. He who takes away the endure, on the occasion of Rahu's touching the land granted by himself or others incurs the sin disk of the sun, for the performance of the of killing a hundred thousand cows. The Brahma ceremonies bali, charu, and Vaišvadeva, resumers of Brakman gifts are born as large with a view to the increase of the holy merit serpents dwelling in the dry hollows of trees and fame of himself and parents. No country in the waterless forests of the Vindhya. What officer shall hinder or obstruct these two in the good man will resume the gifts made by former enjoyment of this. And future kings, whether of kings for the sake of religious merit, prosperity, our race or others, bearing in mind the common and fame, which are like flowers once worn or fruit arising from grants of land, the transitori- matter vomited ? Thus reflecting that prosperness of all power, and the fact that humanity ity and human life are as fleeting as a drop of is as fleeting as a drop of water standing on the water on a lotus-leaf, and calling to mind all leaf of a lotus blown over by a violent breeze; that is said here, one should not blot out the seeing that life is full of ineradicable misery, fame of others. Five hundred and eighty-five. and momentary; observing that the store of years of the Guptas having elapsed, the king wealth accumulated with excessive toil is as granted this when the disk of the son was ansteady as the flame of a lamp open to (in eclipsed. Jajnagya, of a pure mind, has written contact with) wind; desirous of being free from this charter of the king who rivals Nriga and censure;. wishing themselves to be, like the Nahusha-a charter containing graceful lines of regions of the sky, shrouded in a veil of glory letters, charming on account of the use of apt as pure as the light of the autumnal moon with words, distinguished by its virtuous precepta, her spotless disk; and endowed with the purest and shining by its good and auspicious uttermind, should, at our solicitations, confirm this ances, like a Brahman whose mouth abounds grant of ours. And having reflected on the with such. Samvat 585, 5th of the bright half of declaration of the covenant about the five car. Phâlguna. Sign-manual of Jainka. Engraved dinal sins laid down by pious kings of old, and by Doddaka the son of Sankari.
PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA AND THE JAINS. IV.-Translation from Lassen's Alterthumskunde, IV. 771 seqq.
By E. Rehatsek, M.C.E.
(Concluded from p. 200.) The cosmogonic system of the Jainas agrees excels it only in exaggerations, and the Jainas on the whole with that of the Purdnas, and I have, in some respects, transformed in pecu.