134i Copioer-plate Grant of Govindacliandrn of Kanauj. [July, 



Eomaitha, and of the neigh bourliood, as also rajas, queens, priests, ministers, 

 justiciaries, treasurers, physicians, astrologers, guardians of female apart- 

 m.ents, and the owners of all sorts of properties. Kjiowing that all living 

 beings are mortal and frail, and life, like a drop of water on a blade of grass 

 subject to the influence of the wind and sun, is impermanent, and as unsteady 

 as a drop of water on a lotus leaf, or like the bubble of water caused by 

 rain di-ops, gone the moment after it is seen ; that the pleasm'es of the senses 

 are transitory, and life is always passing ; being f m'ther assured by the other- 

 wise conflicting Smritis and S'ruties that a gift of land secures eternal bles- 

 sing, four ploughs of land in this village together with their soil and water, 

 hiUs and rivers, orchards of mangoe, and madhuka trees, iron and salt mines, 

 and with everything that is above and below that land, along with the power 

 of inflicting punishment on the jDeople according to the nature of their offences 

 and of realizing the rents of grass, leaves and mines, I grant, for the increase 

 of fame and virtue of myself and of my parents, unto Bhatta Bramhana 

 Gugachandra, son of Rilhi, grandson of Guga, inhabitant of Bhatakahara, 

 of the Sankhayana Gotra, having Gautama, Abithatha and Angirasha for his 

 threefold Pravara, and is well versed in S'ruti ; by this patent, with a pure 

 heart, with hands consecrated by water and kusa grass ; for the period of 

 the duration of air, water, earth and ocean, on this the 15th day of the wane 

 in the month of Pausha, Samvat 1166, when the sun is under the influence 

 of Eahu, having bathed with due ceremonies in the Yamuna at the bathing 

 place called after the god Muraitha in Bhasatika, having offered libations 

 of water to gods, men and my ancestors, ha^^ing worshipped the sun and 

 then my god of special adoration, Mahesvara, with fivefold offerings, and 

 having made full offerings to the fire. 



Knowing this you must render mito him, according to my commands, 

 the twentieth part of all usufructs and taxes for justice, fragrant grass, salt 

 and diamond mines and other taxes, whatever have to be given. No body 

 should in- any way interfere with this. 



1. O Pm'andara, heaven is the reward of those who give away a 

 conchshell, a homestead, an umbrella, choice horses, excellent elephants, 

 lands, trees, and flowers. 



2. Both he who accepts lands and he who grants them are equally 

 meritorious and dwell eternally in heaven. 



3. The earth has been enjoyed by many kings, including Sagara and 

 others. To whomsoever belongs the earth for the time being, he enjoys the 

 fruit (of such gifts). 



4. Whoever robs earth, whether given by himself or by others, be- 

 coming a maggot, sinks with his parents into ordure. 



5. The donor of lands dwells in heaven for the space of sixty thousand 

 years : the resumer and the abettor thereof are doomed to abide in hell for 

 a like period. 



