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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY GURJARAS (L. 9) “Be it known to you that for the increase of the religious merit and fame, in this world and the next, of (My) mother and father as well as of Myself, I have today, on the occasion of the sun’s entering the sign of Karkaţaka (Cancer), on the holy day of the tenth tithi of the bright fortnight of Āshādha, granted, with a libation of water as a dēvadāya1, a piece of land measuring fifty nivartanas and (lying) on the south-western boundary of the village, in the village Kēmajju situated in the famous vishaya of Bharukachcha, the boundaries of which are,—on the east the road leading to Chhīrakaha, on the south the junction with the boundary of the village Jambhā, on the west the road going from the village Jambhā to the village Gōliavali, on the north the road going from the village Kēmajju to Sīhu and the well near the banyan tree,—the field defined by these four boundaries, together with the uparikara, with taxes on things manufactured or imported, with its income in grain and gold, with (the fines imposed for) the ten offences, with the right of forced labour arising therefrom; (which is) not to be entered by chāţas and bhaţas; (which is to be) free from interference of all officers of the State; exclusive of all grants previously made to gods and Brāhmaņas ; (and the grant of which is to last) as long as the moon, the sun, the ocean, the earth, rivers and mountains will endure, according to the maxim of waste land,—to the divine (god) Āśramadēva established in the village of Kēmajju, in order to defray the expenses of perfume, frankincense, flowers, lamps (and) the morning musical service, of the maintenance of an alms-house, of cleaning the temple, and of the repairs of the broken, rent and dilapidated (portions), (and) of (building) new structures.â
[For a translation of 11. 16-19, see above, P. 89.] (L. 24) This (charter), the Dūtaka to which is the illustrious Kaņdakaņaka, has been written and recorded by [me]. . . . . . . . in the year four hundred increased by eighty-six [on the twelfth tithi of the bright fortnight of Āshādha, the year] 400 (and) 80 (and) 6, (the month) Āshādha, the bright (fortnight), (the lunar day) 10 (and)2, on Sunday. This is the sign-manual of me, the illustrious Jayabhata.
NO. 24; PLATE XVII ‘THESE two plates were received by the Prince of Wales Museum from the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1920, when the Society’s collection was lent to that Museum. Their original find-spot is not known.’ They have been edited before by Mr. G.V. Acharya, Curator of the Prince of Wales Museum, in the Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIII, pp. 147 ff. They are edited here from photographs kindly supplied by Mr. Acharya. 1I. e., a gift made in honour of a god. |
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