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religious edict (which refers) to the villages, which (we) gave as rent-free (sarvamánya), with threefold repetition of the words ("Not Mine !") and with a libation, to last as long as the moon and the sun, endowed with all the taxes (bali), all the produce (utpatti) and the right of the power over the eight kinds of possession,“ viz. buried treasures, deposits, water, stones, the akshini, future additions (? ágámin), actuals (? siddha) and outstandings (? sádhya), which obtain within the four proper boundaries of these 2 villages, and (with) all rights (svámya), as tolls (sunka), the land-rent in money (suparnádáya) and the village-watchman's quit-rent."
B.-Sanskrit portion. (L. 33.) "The preservation of the gift of another is twice as meritorious as one's own gift; by the confiscation of the gift of another, one's own gift will become fruitless."
(L. 35.) “Ramachandra again and again implores all future lords of this earth: This bridge of merit, which is common to (all) men, must be preserved by each of you in his time.'”.
(L. 38.) "He who shall confiscate land given by himself or given by another, is born as a worm in ordure for sixty thousand years."
(L. 41.) In the Saka (year) measured by fourteen and a half hundreds (s.e. 1450) (which was) the (cyclic) year Sarvadhårin, on Thursday, the lunar day of Madana in the bright half of the month called Chaitra, under the Aryamarksha," Ksishṇaraya, the renowned son of king Narapa, caused to be performed by Arya Kộishņa, who had placed himself under his Protection, the consecration of the image) of Lakshmi and Nara hari (s.e. Narasimha) at Kộishņa purt.
« On asfabhoga-tjab-rodmya see Ind. Ant. vol. XIX, p. 244, and Mr. Rice's Myrore Inscriptions, p. 3, note I.
a The term talavdrike is derived from talavdra or taldri (Tamil talaiydri), 'village-watchman. Compare Ind. Ant. vol. XII, p. 186, note 88; Mr. Rice's Myron Inscriptions, p. 320, noto ; Hultasch's South Indian Inscriptions, vol. I, p. 108, note 6, and vol. II, p. 119, Dote 4.
• I. e. the Uttara-Phalgunl-nakshatra
