Indian Antiquary Vol 06

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 85

FEBRUARY, 1877.]
cumference of the revolving wheel of worldly life. Repentance, therefore, will be the sole reward of those who obtaining wealth will not bestow it in works of charity."
THREE MALWA INSCRIPTIONS.
And being thus convinced of the vanity of all created things, and choosing to abide by the unforeseen rewards for meritorious deeds, bent on furthering the glory and merits of his mother and father as well as of himself, with singleness of heart and the ceremony of pouring water (on the hands of the grantee), by this writ of the ploughs of land to be given (ia charity), he (the king) grants away, as long as the sun and moon, the earth and the seas endure, the above-mentioned village, with all its proper boundaries, which extend over the space of one kos, as far as the ground for tending cattle, with all the gold, the land revenue, and the servitude and sundry other revenues or fines, and with all sorts of rights thereof, to D han apati Bhatta, son of Govinda Bhatta, a Rigvedî Brahman of the Asvalâ yana sákhá, of the Agasti gotra and tripravara, who, being an inhabitant of Radha Surasanga Karnâța, has come from Śrivada, situate in Vellu Valla. Knowing this, they are henceforth to give to this Brâhman, in obedience to the royal will, all established rents, taxes, and cash.
Considering that the merit of this charitable deed belongs to them in common with him, all succeeding kings, whether of his family or of any other, ought to acquiesce in this his charitable grant and uphold it; for it is said :
"This earth has been enjoyed by many own handwriting.
III.-Inscription at Ingnoda.
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princes, Sagara and others, and the merit (of charitable grants) has successively belonged to those who, for the time being, were possessed of sovereign power over her. Things given away in charity by former kings with aims of philanthropy and renown are likened to rejected things and to vomitings, and what good man would again resume them ?
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' छ || ॐ नमः । संवत्सरशतेष्वेकादशसु नवत्यधिकेषु आषाढ शुक्लपक्षैकादश्यां संवत् ११९० आशा
दि ११ अह इंग
* णपटे समस्त राजावलीविराजितभर्तृपदाभिदानमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरश्री पृथ्वीपालपादानुध्यात परमभट्टा
रकम
हाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरश्रीतिगुणपालदेवपादानुध्यातमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरश्रीविजयपालदेवेन भगवंतं
भ
A plough of land in Malwa is equal to a piece of ground one can till with one pair of bullocks. Drona is
"This charity of ours should be acquiesced in alike by those who will glory in the nobility of our family, and by those who may be strangers to us.
"Of wealth, which is as fleeting as a flash of lightning or a bubble of water, there are two good fruits or uses, and only two: one is its employment in charities, and the other is the maintenance thereby of other men's fame.
"To all future kings of this earth does the Sri Ramachandra entreat again and again that as the bridge of charity is a common boon, which benefits all kings in their times alike, it should in successive times be maintained intact by them all."
★ वानीपति समभ्यर्च्य संसारस्यासारतां विधिव्य मातापित्रोरात्मनश्च पुण्ययशोभिवृद्धये आत्मीयामात्यमं
fagirfea घटिकावितसमस्तपरिवारसंविदितं अपत्यब्रह्मपूरिकाब्राह्मण: उदसाभिः सोमदेवादेलाक तथा मह कोकल तथा राधांदूक तथा श्रे लाला तथात्रे ०* साढा तथा श्रे०लपमणादिप्रभूतिसमस्तमहाजनप्र
Therefore, looking upon wealth as if it were a drop of water on the petal of a lotus-flower, and upon life as quite uncertain, and thinking on all that I have said, a man should never try to undo what others have done to commemorate their names.
Dated in the Samvat year 1078, Chaitra Suddhi 14 Chaturdasi, Svayamajiya Maugalam Mahâśrîḥ.
(Witness) this signature in Bhoja Deva's
व्यक्षम् । आanother measure of land mentioned in old grants. may be short for (modern 2).