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KALEGAON PLATES OF YADAVA MAHADEVA
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23. Do. . . . . . 24. Vásishtha . . . . 26. Do. . . . . . 26. Vābhryasva . . . . 27. Viávāmitr-Aghamarshaņa-Kaubika 28. Sandilya . . . . . 29. Do. . . . . . 30. Härt'a . . . .
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1 1
The usual convention was that the grants of older kings should be continued by later rulers even though they may have belonged to a different royal house. It is therefore interesting to note that the village granted to fifty-two Brāhamaņas in 1261 A.D. was again given as an Inām to the Vyasas by a Pēshwa. It seems that, for some reason or other, Kálēgaon was deserted by the decendants of the donees of this grant.
Among the privileges enjoyed by the donees of the grant, the expression ashta-bhoga normally stands for the following eight kinds of enjoyment fixed by usage (grāma-maryādā): nidhi (treasuro trove); nikshëpa (also called upanidhi, deposits on the soil); jala (water reservoirs); pashana (stones, mines and quarries); akshini (actual privileges); ägāmi (future profits); siddha or middhiya (what is already brought under cultivation); sādhya (waste land that may in future be