422 ON ANCIENT MONUMENTS 



29. be honoured by all ; marked on the four sides bv 

 distinct boundaries ; together with its treasures, and 

 hidden deposites, its stones and every thing- which it 



30. does or may contain; aboundmg with objects 

 pleasing to the eye ; fit to be enjoyed by two per- 

 sons ; graced with elegant trees :, furnished with 

 wells, cisterns, ponds and banks ; to be successively 



31. possessed by the sons, grandsons and other descend- 

 ants [of the grantees], as long as the sun and 



32. moon endure, subject to be mortgaged, sold or any 

 way disposed of; a village visited by assiduous and 

 gentle priests and attendants, and by various wise 

 persons, who are conversant with holy rites, and 

 surpass in voice melodious birds *.' 



A PARTICULAR description of the bounds of the vil- 

 lage, and its land marks, is next inserted in the Cdnara 

 language. After which the patent proceeds thus. 



* This patent is of the king Harihara, the sole un^ 

 alterable tree of beneficence, magnanimous, and whose 

 sweet strains compose this royal grant. By his com. 

 mand this patent has been framed, expressed in due 

 Ibrui, in the sacred tongue -j-. 



' The boundaries of the village on all sides, have 

 been stated in the provincial dialect. 



^ Op original gift or confirmation of it, confir- 

 mation is superior to gift ; by generous grants 

 a man obtains heaven; by confirmation of them, 



* Some parts of lliis long passage are ob.scuic niid dcnibtful. The 

 last stanza, with two preceding, omitting one, (that is the 29th, 

 30ih, and :32nd) aj)pe:us to be the same with three which occur in 

 Jlie grant preserved at Conjcveram, viz. 43d, 41tli, and 45th. (As. 

 lies. vol. 3. p. 5 I .) But there are SDme variations between the 

 leading of ihern in this Miscri|)tion, and in tJi • copy of the Conjfvc- 

 ram plates, from wliich Sir W. Jones made his version of that 

 grant : and, in a few instances, the inteipretation, which 1 have., 

 adopted, ditllrs from liis. 



I Tliis passage may hidicate the artist's name, Vumde-vi. 



