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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
MISCELLANEOUS (L. 25) Wherefore, future rulers, whether born in our family or others,─who are desirous of acquitting the common reward of the gift of land, having realized that worldly existence possesses as (little) worth as reeds and bamboos (possess sap), that objects of enjoyment are as impermanent as the waves of the ocean-water, that fortune is as un- steady as the leaves of the aśvattha tree struck by a strong wind, (and) that youth is liable to fade like a flower of a bloosoming śirīsha tree,─should consent to and preserve this our gift. He, who with his mind shrouded by the veil of the darkness of ignorance, confiscates it or allows it to be confiscated, shall incur the five great sins,â (L. 28) And it has been said by the venerable Vyāsa, the redactor of the Vēdas:─ (Here follow four benedictive and imprecatory verses). (L. 32) In the year three hundred increased by ninety-four on the full-moon
day of Vaiśākha (this charter), of which the Vāsāpaka1 Nanna is the Dūtaka, has been
written by the Mahāsandhivigrahādhikŗita Khuddasvāmin. The year 300 (and) 90 (and) 4
(the month) Vaiśākha, the bright (fortnight), (the lunar day) 10 (and) 5. (This charter has been)
incised by the Kshatriya Matŗisimha. 1Vāsāvakha, (or Vāsāpaka) was apparently an officer whose duty was to arrange for the residence of touring royal officers and strangers, Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 202.
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