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skilled in Vedic lore, born of the Brahman who arose from the navel-pit of the Lord of Lady Fortune [Vishnu) . . . able in rites . . . maintaining all religion and competent for honourable and righteous conduct; accumulations of great virtues, such as the spirit of tranquillity: highly exalted by suocess in fattaining) the spirit of sacred formulm; . . . duly meeting in harmony on the occasion of fizing their constitution ) .. . at Brahmēsvarapural .. for the Kondaligere Tank . . having made a sale of the fees for penitential rites, the aika-sana, (and) the pasumbe-vana,' and (decided to apply ?] the sum realised .. . (assigned] for as long as moon and sun endure 12 gadyanas for the cult of the god . .. 12 gadyānas for stipends of professors, (and) 2 gadyanas for the assembly-hall, amounting to the sum of 26 gadyanas, in gold of fixed revenue . . . shall preserve : happiness!
(Lines 72-73)-If of his good will one shall maintain this (foundation) in its ancient order, he will gain the same reward as if be worshipped with gold coins at Arghyatirtba crore of kine . . .! He who willingly ahall destroy it will obtain the reward of endless guilt . . . (namely) hell, as if he should destroy the same crore of kine and crore of Brahmans at the same holy place!
(Line 74)-The excellent sage Kavirajaršja has brilliantly described in now eulogy the blessed Kadiyür and the eminent persons of the lineage of the Lotus-born (Brahman) who are there.
(Lines 74-76: two common Sanskrit admonitory verses.)
No. 30.-WALA PLATE OF GUHASENA : THE YEAR 246.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT.
This plate was originally edited by Professor Bühler in the Indian Antiquary, vol. IV (1875), pp. 174 ff., and is registered as No. 465 in Professor Kielhorn's List of Northern Inscriptions (above, vol. V). It was discovered in or near Wald in Kathiāwāų, and was given by the Kirbhāri of that town to Lieutenant F. B. Peill, of the 26th Regiment Bombay Infantry, from whom it passed into other hands, and was sold in 1890 to the Trustees of the British Museum, where it is now preserved in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS., registered as " Oriental Charters No. 48." Having recently cleanod it, as far as was possible, and compared it with Bühler's text, I now give & rerised transcription, with a facsimile.
The record is a rectangular plate of copper, which when perfect measured 12/2" in width and 87" in height. When it came into Bühler's hands, it had already suffered some damage at the corners, and in the interval between 1875 and 1890 some more small pieoes at the edges were lost, as may be seen by comparing Bühler's text with the present transcript. The rest of the plate is fairly well preserved. The character is a good Gupta hand of the period, showing both the jihuamūliya (1.6) and the upadhmaniya (1. 16).--The language is Sanskrit, in prose, except for two of the usual adwonitory verses.
The plate is the second and conclading half of a document of king Guhasēns of Valabhi, conferring certain villages for the maintenance of the Buddhist monastery in the neighbourhood founded by Dudda, which is known from other records of the period. It was written out by
