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of land dwells for sixty thousand years in here by former kings, are like garlands that heaven; (but) the confiscator (of a grant), and have been used; what good man would take he who assents (to such confiscation), shall them back again? 0 Yudhishthira, best of the dwell for the same number of years in hell! wise !, carefully preserve land that has been Those who confiscate a grant of land, are born given, whether by thyself or by another; the as black snakes, dwelling in the dried-up preservation (of a grant) is better than (making) hollows of trees, in the forests of the Vindhya a grant ! (mountains), destitute of water! The earth has (L. 41.)-This has been written by Kéśava, been enjoyed by many kings, commencing with who is in charge of the great army, the son of Sagara; he who for the time being possesses the the Bhôgika ............, in the year earth, to him belongs at that time the reward four hundred, increased by fifty-six, on the (of this grant that is now made)! Gold is the fifteenth day of the bright fortnight of the first offspring of the fire; the earth belongs to month) Magha. It has for its messenger the Vishņu; and cows are the daughters of the military officer Bâvulla. Prepared in the sun; he who bestows gold and a cow and year 400 (and) 50 (and) 6; [in the bright land, by him the entire) three worlds are fortnight of Magha; (on the day) 10 (and) 5]; given! Those grants, productive of religion on (?) Monday." (This is) the sign-manual of and wealth and fame, which have been made' me, the illustrious Jayabhata.
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BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.S., M.B.A.S., C.I.E.
(Continued from p. 48.) No. CXXXIX.
month Kârttika, and in the year 385 of an Three inscriptions of the Gurjara family unspecified era, on the full-moon day of the have now been published in this Journal, -by month Kårttika; and by Professor R. G. Dr. Bühler, the Umêtâ grant of Dadda II., Bhandarkar, the Il&ô grant of the same person, dated in Saka 400, on the full-moon day of the dated in the Saka yeer 417, at the time of an month Vaisakha;' and the Kavi grant of eclipse of the sun on the new-moon day of Jayabhata III., dated in the year 486 of an the month Vaisakha." unspecified era, on Sunday the tenth day of The last three grants require to be treated the bright fortnight of the month Ashadha;' more critically than they have been; and I -and by Pandit Bhagwânlal Indraji, the therefore now re-edit them in this Journal. Nausâri grant of Jayabhata III., dated, in the The two Kaira grants of Dadda II. were same way, in the year 456 of an unspecified found about A.D. 1827, together with the era, at the time of an eclipse of the moon on grant of Vijayaraja or Vijayavarma of the the full-moon day of the month Mâgha, and, Chalukya dynasty, and one more, the details apparently, also on Tuesday corresponding of which are not specified. “The river with the same day."
* Watrun' runs close to the walls" of Khêda or And three inscriptions of the same family Kaira, "on the north-west side, and was the have been published elsewhere,-by Professor cause of the discovery, by washing down the J. Dowson, the two Kaira grants of Dadda walls and earth." The original plates appear II., dated respectively in the year 380 of an to have been all presented by Dr. A. Burns to unspecified era, on the fifteenth day of the the Royal Asiatic Society, but only the grant bright fortnight, or the full-moon day, of the of Vijayaraja is now forthcoming. I therefore " See note 38, p. 79 above.
James Prinsep, in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. VII. Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. pp. 618.-General Cunningham pp. 908ff. His division of the text follows the grant of calculates the date as corresponding with Monday, the 380 down to line 24 inclusive, but the grant of 385 from 3rd April, A.D. 478.
line 25 to the end, except that it gives the date of 380, * Id. Vol. V. pp. 109ff.-With reference to the remarks not of 385. After the last word Prašntaráganya ll of that I have published in Vol. XII. pp. 292-93, Pandit the two kranta, it adds Samanta-Datta(sic) k tasya putra Bhagwanlal IndrAji assures me. from his personal exami- Vitardg-para-nama &rf-Jayabhatah tasya putrah Pronation of the plate, that the second numerical symbol is sanga(sic)raga brdhmandbhyo bhilmith dadau; but there certainly 80, and not 90.
is no foundation for any such passage in the lithographs sante, pp. 70ff.
published with Professor Dowson's paper. Jour. R. As. Soc., N. S., Vol. I. pp. 247.- A mixture Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. X. pp. 19ff. of these two grants was published before that, by Mr. Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. pp. 2417.
