Epigraphia Indica Vol 16

Author(s): F W Thomas, H Krishna Sastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XVI.
(Verse 22.) He is the exalted ruler of the circle of land of Kandi, a thunderbolt-stroke to the whole crowd of those mountains his adversaries, king Katta, wearing the form of the Lovegod on earth.
(Lines 43-46.) Hail ! On Sunday, the new-moon day of Āshādha in the oyclio year Vikrama, the 902nd (year) of the Saka era, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun, Dhana. gara Kanohiyabbo, giving to the reigniors and the Thirty of Sölu land for an establishment, laved the feet of Tribhuvanasingi Pandits and granted 500 kam ma for the supply of food to the ascetios observing austerities in the sanctuary of the god Suvarnakshi. .
(Verse 23.) Out of this, one hundred kamma ... shall be effectively applied in due manner for the personal enjoyment of the Moon-bearer (Siva] for as long as the moon, ocean, stars, and heavens endure.
(Verse 24.) Verily a fruit leading to the salvation of ... most excellent holy men are these five-hundred kamma : hence they, together with one dwelling-house, are immune from all conflicting claims.
(Verse 25.) The estate of the almshouse situate to the south of the (Quarter of the) Barbers, east of the special estate of Akar Gävaņdar, north of the field of Tegur ... on the west of ... (is as follows) ..
(Verse 26.) Those excellent men the chiefs of the Thirty of Sol, having measured out by the span forty-six ... as a special (estate) and caused it to be prepared, shall give sixhandred kamma.
(Verse 27.) To the north of the road by which one walks within the land between the (Quarters of the) Barbers and the Washermen, to the south of the god's tank, is the building of the almshouse for the ascetics of the god.
(Line 53.) Of this house the length is to be twelve cabits and the width eight.
(Verso 28.). 1. in the multitude of their virtues the leading Thirty of Soval, they who are pure of body, valiant, supremely generous, trees of desire to dependents, shall preserve the pious foundation granted by the lady Kanchale, that treasure of bounty, as if it were... of their own estate, so long as this earth and sun exist.
(Verse 29.) The priors of the establishment and the town jointly shall protect the foundation), if princes do harm; if the town harm it, the prior of the establishment shall protect it; if the head of the establishment do harm, the Thirty shall protect it.
(Verse 30.) For him who injures the pious foundation serving for the salvation of ... holy men which purifies the earth (there shall be) a state of misery ; for him who preserves it, & most exalted condition caused by the effect of his merit, a state of happiness, a condition of felicity, increase, and success, states of great reputation : these, these are inevitable, Othon eminent scholar Dēvana.
(Verse 31.) The great guilt of slaying a thousand kine, two thousand Brahmans, (and) & crore of holy men will accrue to the deadly sinner who injures a ... pious foundation (established) by edict.
(Verso 32.) On seeing how the Chándála woman, having mixed dog's fesh in a human skall and poured (over it) toddy, was covering it with a leather shoe at the time while cooking it, Indra questioned her (as to the reason for covering it).
In the siddhi sense of
Rhimiye seems to be an instrumental (see above, Vol. XIV, p. 277, note 9). " distance within which”: see Kittel, Gram., $347.5 (p. 383).
Apparently an inverted bahu-urili; seo Påņini II. ii. 37. . On this legend see Ep. Carn., Vol. 1, introd., p. 81, and ib. TN. 63,