Epigraphia Indica Vol 20

Author(s): Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 85

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. XX.
(LI. 23-32) Twelve mattar and one housel-site) to the deity Māra ka bbe Bhatāri, fifty mattar and one house-site) towards bhatta-usitti to be enjoyed in return for performing the duties of expounding Nyāsa and Prabhākara, twenty-five mattar to the pupils, twenty-five mattar and one housel-site) as atkariga-vsitti to Nāgadēsiga who was able to compose and expound (the works on) mathematics, astronomy, prosody, poetics and ..... and who had & knowledge of sounds (i.e., Vyakarana), to be utilised for his daily requirements in virtue of his services of teaching his pupils, feeding them once a day and supplying (them) with a cloth every year ; twelve mattar and one house(-sile) for the supply of tender cocoanuts! ; six mattar and one house(-site) for the supply of) vessels for abhisheka ; eight mattar of land and one house(-site) for barbers; twelve mattar and one house(-site) for drummers ; (one) hundred mattar and two house(-siles) to the feeding-house of those that manage by gunaśāsana.. Thus in all three hundred mattar (were set apart) for charity and auxiliary expenses.
(LI. 33-36) Two hundred mattar as mänya land and three house(-sites)-eight hands broad and twenty-five hands long each-to the Crodeyl. Moreover, the Ordeya(shall get these flowing) taxes permanently a kunde for the open space of an oil-press; the reaper of a door-frame for every set of wooden materials (for building purposes)'; one gadyana for a vedic sacrifice ; five panas for .........., two paņas for a marriage ; one pana on the occasion of upanayana, one gadyanı severally on the three parvas of Bilube, Kārap'ınning and Dipīlige.
(LI. 36-43) The incomes accruing from the following fines, viz., two panas for abusing one another, twelve panas for beating; three gadyānas for drawing out the dagger, twelve gadyānas for stabbing-(they) may change the amount of) fine considering the distinction of caste-three gadyānas, in case a bachelor commits adultery; three gadyānas on the occasion of purification ceremony-except when a māni gets up a processional mandapa with weapons; that obtained as spoils (after a raid), one-tenth (daśavandha) of the escheat property of persons dying intestate and the taxes on (musical instruments) kale and maddale (the drum); all these shall go to the tank called) Dēyimgere. He who neglects this shall incur the sin of breaking the tank. A house-site . . . .. including pärikhāya, etc., (was set apart). Those that keep a cowpen (kofta), the gamundas and the chief men of the low caste (must get) one housef-site) each.
(LI. 43-46) The five hundred mattar (of land) and the respective sites (attached to thcm), (granted) as mänya, and for the purposes of feeding house, charity and auxiliary gifts, the Mahajanas shall protect and cause to be enjoyed as long as the moon, the sun and the stars (exist), however adverse the times may be.
(Ll. 46-48) Those that fail (to carry this out) shall incur the five great sins consequent upon the killing at Kurukshetra and Väraņāsi, of seven crores of Brahmins, seven crores of ascetics and seven crores of tawny cows.
(Ll. 48-63) Three imprecatory verses.
(L. 54) Govinda bhatta wrote (this); and Chāvāja engraved. (May there be) fortune and great prosperity.
1 Kurwa seems to stand for rubs which means a tender cocoanut. (See Kittel's Kanarese Dictionary, p. 448.)
* The word used here in galantige which is a tadbhava of the Sanskrit word galantik. It means a small waterjar with a holo in the bottom from which the water drops upon a linga.
"The exact significance of this word is not clear. For the meaning of the word muff, nee Kittel's Kanarens Dictionary, p. 1263.
This parenthetioal clause ovidently provides an exception to the fine stated above for drawing out thg word