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wood and forage (khur liikur) contributions {bur/ir) are renounced by the state in 

 favour of the Brahmans. 



Sdmvat 18T5 Amavus, \bth of Asoj, A.D. 1819. 



No. II. 



Grant held by a Brahman of Blrkhairah. 



" A Brahman's orphan was compelled by hunger to seek sustenance in driving an 

 oil-mill ; instead of oil the receptacle was filled with blood. The frightened oilman 

 demanded of the child who he was : ' A Brahman's orphan,' was the reply. Alarmed 

 at the enormity of his guilt in thus employing the son of a priest, he covered the palm of 

 his hand with earth, in which he sowed the tulasi seed, and went on a pilgrimage to 

 Dwarica. He demanded the presence (dursima) of the god; the priests pointed to the 

 ocean, when he plunged in, and had an interview with Dwarica Nat'h, who presented 

 him with a written order on the liana for forty-five bigahs of land. He returned and threw 

 the Avriting before the Rana, on the steps of the temple of Juggernat'h. The Mana read 

 the writing of the god, placed it on his head, and immediately made out the grant. This 

 is three hundred and fifty years ago, as recorded by an inscription on stone, and his 

 descendant, Koshala, yet enjoys it." 



{A true Translation.) J. Tod. 



No. HI. 



The Palode inscription is unfortunately mislaid; but in searching for it, another was 

 discovered from Unair, four miles south-west of the ancient Morwan, where there 

 is a temple to the four-armed divinity (Chathurbhuja), endowed in Samvat 1570 by 

 Rana Juggut Sing. 



On one of the pillars of the temple is inscribed a voluntary gift made in Samvat 1845, 

 and signed by tlie village Punch, of the first-fruits of the harvest, viz. two sirs and a^half 

 (five pounds weight) from each hkal* of the spring, and the same of the autumnal 

 harvests. 



«£ xvell as the present, prove the proprietary right to be in the cultivator only. The tamba-paira,{a)or 

 copper-plate;ja<fn< (liy which such grants are properly designated) of Yasovarma, the Pramara prince of 

 Ujayani, seven hundred years ago, is good evidence that the rents only are granted ; he commands the 

 crown tenants of the two villages assigned to the temple ** to pay all dues as they arise — money'rent — 

 Jirst share of produce," not a word of seizin of the soil. — See Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 vol. i. p. 223. 



(a) To distinguish tliem from grants of land to feudal tenants, which patents {putta) are manuscript. 



• A khal is one of the heaps after the corn is thrashed out, aboutyJw maumls. 



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