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(V. 50). When the (earth), as far as the coast of the four oceans, bearing his seal, was subdued, the seals of all kings were broken by the Garuda seal.
(V. 51). Those kings are, indeed, worthy of respect who were of the past and whose charity is to be maintained by us and others. The (kings of the) present were wicked and had been destroyed. Those who are to be besought for (the maintenance of) our charity are kings of the future.
(V. 52). What consideration can there be for that unstable kingdom which is enjoyed by some through valour, passed over by some to others, and given up again by some others? By the great a charity alone should be maintained for fame.
(V. 53). Considering that this life is unsubstantial and as fickle as a breeze or flash of lightning and that a grant of land is a supreme religious merit, he has promoted this gift to Brahmanas.
Ll. 57 ff. And he, the P.M.P. Śri-Prithvi-vallabha, Sri-Amoghavarsha, Sri-Vallabhanarendradeva, who meditates on the feet of the P.M.P. Sri-Jagattungadova-being well, commands the officials such as the lords of the provinces (rashtra), the lords of the districts (vishaya), the heads of the villages (grama-kuta), the accountants (Yuktaka), the deputyaccountants (Niyuktaka), the leading persons, and others,-all according as they are concerned.
"Be it known to you that by me, while residing at the capital of Manyakhēta,--for the enhancement of religious merit and fame, in this world and the next, of my parents and myselfhas been granted to four Brahmanas of the Bahvricha sakha, namely, (1) Narasimha-Dikshita, son of Gōla-Shaḍamgavid, grandson of Savikūvāra-Kramavid, a religious student of the Bharadvaja (götra) consisting of (the pravaras) Bharadvaja, Agnivésya, Angirasa, Barhaspatya, (originally) come from Karahaḍa; (2) Rakshaditya-Kramavid, son of Govinda-Bhatta, grandson of Bhaṭṭa, of the same götra and come from the same province; (3) Trivikrama-Shadamgavid, son of Vishnu-Bhatta, grandson of Davadi-Gahiyasahasa, a religious student of the Vaddamukha (götra) (residing) in the same country; (4) Kesava-Gahiyasahasa, son of Göväditya-Bhatta, grandson of Hari-Bhatta, a religious student of the Vatsa (götra), (residing) in the same country;-the village called Jharivallika from the Twenty-four-village Group adjoining to Samjana. Its boundaries (are) to the east, the river Kalluvi, flowing towards the sea, to the south the village of the Bhattas called Uppalahatthaka, to the west Nandagrāma (and) to the north the village of Dhannavallikā.
That (village), so marked by the four boundaries, together with the royal share," with the appurtenances, with (the proceeds of the punishments for) faults and the ten offences, with the (right) of toll upon the appearance of a spirit, with (the right to) forced labour as it arises, and with the assessment in grain and gold, not to be entered on by the Chaṭas or Bhatas, and not to be seized by the hand of any (officials) belonging to the king, to be enjoyed lineally in regular
1 D. R. Bhandarkar's Asoka, pp. 53-4.
2 Above, Vol. VI, p. 241, n. 3. Kramavid probably signifies "one conversant with the Krama arrangement of the Vedic text." Gahiyasahasa corresponds to the modern Ghaissas, a surname at present found among the Desastha, Chitpavan and Karhādā Brahmans of the Maharashtra.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 189, n. 39.
When any spirit manifests itself at any particular place, many people come there to propitiate it, and the place thus becomes a source of income (Kautilya's Arthasastra, p. 242).
"The meaning of these words is unknown. I have therefore left them untranslated. They have generally been taken to signify "regular or irregular troops," but this is a mistake. For another meaning of chata, see Above, Vol. IX, p. 284, n. 10. The correct sense, however, appears to be that deducible from the quotations which Professors K. B. Pathak and H. M. Bhadkamkar have cited from Samkara's gloss on the Brihadaranyck. opinishad (Ibid., pp. 296-7) and the Yajnavalkya-smriti (Above, Vol. XI, p. 176 and n. 1) respectively. See also J. Ph. Vogel's Antiquities of Chamba State, Pt. I, pp. 130-2.
