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south, the river Varanda ; on the west, the who for the time being possesses the earth, village of Sunthavadaka; (and) on the north, enjoys the reward (of this grant that is now the village of Araloäm,-this village, thus made)! And he shall incur the guilt of the specified as to (its) four boundaries,-together five great sins and of the minor sins, who, with the udranga, and the uparikara, and that having his mind obscured by the darkness of which is to be given in lind) in grain ignorance, may confiscate (this grant) or assent and gold, and the right to) forced labour as it to its confiscation !" arises ; not to be entered by any of the king's (L. 23.)--And it has been said by the holy people; to continue as long as the moon Vyasa, the arranger of the Vedas :--The giver and the sun and the ocean and the earth and of land dwells for sixty thousand years in the rivers and the mountains (may endure); heaven; (but) the confiscator (of a grant), to be enjoyed by the succession of sons and and he who assents (to such confiscation), shall son's sons ;. with the exception of grants dwell for the same number of years in hell! formerly given to gods and Brâhmans; (and Those ancient grants, productive of religion to be held) by (the custom of) abhyantara- and wealth and fame, which have been made siddhi,-has been given by me, with liba- here, are like unused garlands (that remain tions of water,-in (the year) four hundred, from an offering to an idol); what good man increased by seventeen, of the centuries of would take them back again ? O king! best years that have elapsed from the time of the of kings !, carefully preserve land that has Saka king, at the time of) an eclipse of the been given, (whether) by thyself or by another; sun on the new-moon day of the month) preservation is better than giving ! Jyêshtha, -for the purpose of maintaining (L. 26.)-This (has been)- written by the the bali, the charu, the vaisvadeva, the agni- Sandhivigrahádhikrita Rêva, the son of Må. hôtra, the five great sacrifices, and other dhava. rites, -to the Bhatta Narayana, the son of the (L. 27.)-This (is) the sign-manual" of me, Bhat!a Govinda, who resided at Abhichchha- Sri-Prasantarága, the son of Sri-Vitntra, who belonged to the community of the råga. Chaturvedis of that (town), who was of the
No. CXLII. Kasyapa gôtra, (and) who was a religious This is another of the grants that were student of the Bahvřicha bakhá.
found together with the grant of Nandapra(L. 19.)—" Wherefore no obstruction bhañjanavarma, No. CXXXVIII. above, at should be caused to this (man) cultivating Chicacole' in the Ganjam' District of the (this village) according to the proper con- Madras Presidency, and were presented by dition of a brahmadaya, (or) causing (it) | Mr. Grahame to the Madras Museum. It was to be cultivated, (or) enjoying (it), (or) obtained by me for the purpose of editing it, causing (it) to be enjoyed, or assigning it (to through the kindness of Mr. R. Sewell, C.S. another).
The grant consists of three plates, ench (L. 20.)—"And this Our gift should be about 68" long by 24' broad. The edges of assented to and preserved by future kings the plates are here and there fashioned slightly whether of Our lineage or others, just as if it thicker; but not so uniformly or in so marked were a grant made by themselves, recognising a way as to shew whether this was done inthat the reward of a grant of land is common tentionally, to serve as a raised rim to protect (to him who makes it and to him who preserves the writing. The inscription is in perfect it), (and) understanding that riches are as preservation throughout. The ring, on which unsteady as a drop (of water, and are) tran- the plates are strung, is about it" thick and sient, (and) that life is as fleeting as a drop of | 34" in diameter; it had not been cut when water on the tip of a blade of grass. And so it the grant came into my hands. The seal on has been said :-The earth has been enjoyed the ring is slightly oval, about 1" by 1}'; and by many kings, commencing with Sagara; he it has, on a countersunk surface, the figure of
» Probably the place intended is that which is elsenere always called Ahiohohhatra, or Ahikshetra: see Vol. X. p. 250, note 5.
*° Sva-hasta. See, however, note 25, p. 118 above.
30 No. 156 in Mr. Sewell's published List of Copperplate Grants. Noticed by me, ante Vol. X. p. 243, No. 2.
