366 AN INDIAN GRANT OF LAND 



crimes, mall long in darknefs inhabit Raurava, Mahd- 

 raurava, Andha, Tamifra, and the other places of pu- 

 nifhment. And thus it is declared by the divine Vycija : 



STANZAS. 



1. He who feizes land, given-by-himfelf, or by-ano- 

 ther, (fovereign,) will rot among worms, himfelf a 

 worm, in the midft of ordure. 



2. They who feize granted-land, are born again, 

 living with great fear in dry cavities of trees in the 

 unwatered forefts on the Vinddhian (mountains.) 



3. By feizing one cow, one vefture, or even one nail's 

 breadth of ground, a king continues in hell till an 

 univerfal destruction of the world has happened. 



4. By (a gift of) a thoufand gardens, and by (a gift of) 

 a hundred pools of water, by (giving) a hundred lac of 

 oxen, a difieifor of (granted) land is not cleared from 

 offence. 



5. A grantor of land remains in heaven fixty thoufand 

 years; a difieifor, and he who refufes to do juftice, 

 continues as many (years) in hell. 



And, agreeably to this, in what is written by the 

 hand of the Secretary, (trie King) having ordered it, 

 declares his own intention ; as it is written by the 

 command of me, Sovereign of the Great Circle, the 

 fortunate Aricefari Devardja^ fon of the Sovereign of 

 the Great Circle, the Fortunate, Invincible, Divaraja. 



And 



