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VALABAI DNAYSTY
63 granted by pouring down water and as a spiritual gift for the benefit of my parents the village of Moranjijja in Antaratrå in Saurashtra with meadow lands, other taxes, the dry and wet crops, juice, grains, gold and other revenues, power to try ten offences, the rights of forced labour and with a prohibition to all the state officials to interfere, and excepting any lands given for gods and to the Bråhmanas according to the Bhúmichhidra maxim (to be enjoyed) as long as the moon, the sun, the oceans, the earth, the rivers and the mountains endure and which may properly be enjoyed by his sons, grandsons and descendants. He may, therefore, enjoy it as a charitable gift is rightly enjoyed, or may cultivate it or cause it to be cultivated, or may alienate it; but none should object to it. All the future kings, my descendants and others, should accept this spiritual gift of ours knowing' that power is fitting, luman life is unstable and that the advantage of this gift of land is common (to all). It is said that many kings such as Sagara, &c., have enjoyed the eartb; but he who is tlie lord of the earth for the time being enjoys its fruits. What good man pressed with poverty will resume the money given in charity which is like food already eaten and hence Nirmalya (without substance, properly not capable of being resumed). He who makes a spiritual grant of land lives for sixty thousand years in Svarga while he who resumes it or allows it to be resumed lives an equal number of years in Narka. In this affair the diitaka is Rajyaputra Kharagraba. This is written by Devirapati Sri Haralhana son of Senapati Bappa-Bhojika. The 5th of Jyestha Krishnapaksha Samrat 375. (This is) my own hand.
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Copper-plate forind at Gopanáth near Talaja under Bhdunugar".
The Valabhi grants as is well known were always written on two picres of plates and they wcre for the sake of security joined together witłu rings. Thus they are generally found together; but the present plate is detached fronı its fellow; and the missing one being that in which the grant is generally described and the date given, it is plain that the really important portion is not in our posscasion. The first plate was found at Gopanáth, a solitary Siva temple on a projecting point of the south-eastern coast of Kathiavad, being about fifty miles south of Bhavnagar. The plate measures 13" by 10" containing twenty-seven lines and giving a part of the geneology of the Valabbi kings. The composition is Sanskrit prose, the character being Valabhi.
Ahol Shrutgyanam
