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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JUNE, 1882.
result of the study of the rules of) polity is the the next, of my parents and myself, --seven power of discerning whether the superiority be- hundred and thirty years having elapsed from longs to one's self or to one's enemy. Having the time of the Saka king, in the Vyaya heard through his own spies that he had pitched sainvatsara, on the great occasion of an eclipse his camp on the slopes of the Vindh ya moun- of the moon on the full-moon day of the bright tains, and thinking that he had already arrived fortnight of the month) Vaisakha, -the village at his own territory, king Mârâsarva, of Ambakagrå ma, which is included in impelled by fear, went quickly to gain his good the Vata nagara vishaya belonging to the will by offering) his excellent heir-looms, (the Nâsik a déa, and the boundaries of which like of) which had not been previously obtained are, on the east, the village of Vadavura; on (by him), and to propitiate his feet by bowing the south, the village of Varikhôda ; on the down before them. Having passed the rainy | west, the village of Pallitavada and the season, when the sky is enveloped by compact river Pulinda ; and on the north the village clouds which have no interstices between them, of Padmanála,-this (village), thus defined at $ribhavana, he went thence with his as to its four boundaries,-together with the army to the banks of the Tungabhadrâ; udranga, the uparikara, (the right to) fines and and, abiding there, he, whose enemies bowed the proceeds of punishments inflicted for the) down before him, with the shower (of his ten classes of) offences, the bhútépáttapraarrows) in a wonderful way drew to himself tydya, (the right to forced labour that arises, in its entirety, though it was already held in and that which is receivable (in kind) in grain his hands, the wealth of the Palla vas. The and gold; not to be entered by the irregular or hostile kings, with their foreheads adorned by the regular troops; not to be pointed at with their hands joined palm to palm in the act of the finger (of appropriation) by any of the doing obeisance to him, through fear betook king's people; to be enjoyed by the succession themselves for protection to his two foet, which of sons and son's sons as long as the moon and were not adorned so much by the heaps of | sun and ocean and earth and rivers and mounmost costly jewels given by them), as by his tains may endure; with the exception of grants (own) speech "Fear not !", which by its truth- previously made to gods and Brahmans; and fulness maintained the continuance of his fame. (to be held) according to the custom of) abhyan
(L. 32.)-By him, having seen that life is tarasiddhi and the rule of bhúmichchhias unstable as the wind or the lightning and is dranyaya, -has to-day, after bathing, been unprofitable, this gift to a Brahman, comprising given, with libations of water,--for the purpose the supreme religious merit of a grant of land, of keeping up the rites of the five great sacrihas been effected.
fices of the bali, charu, vaišvadêva, agnihotra, (L. 33.)-And he, the most worshipful one, and atithi, -to the Chaturvedi Damodarabhatta, the supreme king of great kings, the supreme
the son of the Dvivedí Dâmôdara, and the son's lord, Śrt-Prabhūta varshad dva, the son of Vishộubhatta, an inhabitant of the city favourite of the world, $ r l-Govindaraja- of) Vengi, who belonged to the assembly dê va,--who meditated on the feet of the of the Chaturvedis of that place, who was of most worshipful one, the supreme king of the Bharadvâja gôtra, and who was a student great kings, the supreme lord, the glorious of the Taittiriya (sákhd). Dharavarshad êva,-being in good health, (L. 44.)—“Wherefore, not even the slightest announces to the růshtrapatis, vishayapatis, obstruction is to be made by any one to him gramakútas, ayuktakas, miyuktakas, adhikarikas, who, according to the proper condition of mahattaras, &c., according as they are con- a brahmadáya, enjoys (this village) or causes cerned :
it to be enjoyed, or cultivates it, or causes (L. 37.)-"Be it known to you that,-by it to be cultivated, or assigns it to another). me, settled at the city of) Mayura- And so this, my gift, is to be assented to k handi-in order to increase the religious and preserved, just as if it were a gift made merit and the fame, both in this world and by themselves, by future pious kings, whether
* This, in other inscriptions, in the Sanskrit form of That, however, cannot be the place intended in the Pannila, the name of the hill-fort above Kolhapur. present inscription.
