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[N. 8.] 
This my grant should be preserved like their own grants by 
future kings also, from a regard for religious laws and my own 
earnest request. 
L.46. Thus it is said in religious books :— 
{ines 48-49]. Land has been given by many kings com- 
smencing with Sagara ; whoever at any time possesses the earth, 
. to him at that time the reward accrues. 
[Lines 49-50]. . The giver of land enjoys happiness in heaven 
for 60,000 years ; while both the confiscator and the pam who 
‘acquiesces in so doing go to hell. 
[Lines 51-52]. “Gold-is the first offspring of fire ; the earth is 
the daughter of Visnu ; and the cows are born of the sun. He who 
gives gold and cows and lands, by him, by that act, are given all 
the three worlds. | 
[Lines 52-54]. Fathers (in the world of the dead) clap their 
hands upon their arms, and grand-fathers leap from joy, saying, 
“ A giver of land has been born in our family; he shall become 
our deliverer.”’ 
[Lines 54-55]. Both the giver and the receiver of land are 
doers of méritorious works and will cer tainly go to heaven. 
[Lines 55-56]. A confiseator of (¢ “ifted ) lands is not purified 
even by the excavation of a thousand oe tanks, by the performance 
of a hundred of vajapeya sacrifices and by the gift of a crore o* 
cows. 
[Lines 56-57]. He whosteals a piece of gold or a cow or even 
half-a-finger’s breadth of land is consigned to hell till the destruc- 
tion of the world. 
[Lines 57-59]. That ignorant fool who confiscates or causes 
the confiscation of lands is, being tightly bound in the fetters of 
Varuna, reborn of lower animals. 
[Lines 59-60]. He who confiscates lands given by himself or 
others becomes a worm in the ordure and stinks there with his 
ancestors. 
{Lines 61-62]. The sun, Varuna, Visnu, Br ahma, Soma, the 
god of fire and the great god Salapani welcome the giver of ‘land 
(as he goes to heaven). 
[Lines 62-63]. Ramabhadra again and again requests all the 
future kings, saying, ‘“ This bridge of religion is common to all 
men ; it is to be observed by you in all times.” 
| Lines 64-66]. Thinking that wealth as well as human. life 
are as unstable as a drop of water on the leaf of a lotus and under- 
standing all that has been said above, men should not destroy the 
good works of others. 
[Lines 66-69]. He who surpassed the preceptors of, the kings 
of the gods and of the demons (i.e., Vrhaspati and Sukracarya) in 
wisdom and pride, who bore with perfect ease the heavy burden of 
the state affairs imposed by the king and who had both policy and 
prowess as his dear and constant friends,—that fortunate person 
of the name of (Sri) Singhadatta (Simhadatta) was the holder of 
the post of “ the minister of peace and war.” (afefaqeqe) 
(Lines 69-71]. This charter, written by Kayastha Siiryasena 
