104 Note on a Copper hand Grant. [No, 109. 



Slokas. — He who grants lands, and he who accepts, both of those 

 virtuous reside in heaven. 



O, Purandara, (Indra.) Sankha (shell) houses, ensign of ranks, 

 (chattah) fine horses and elephants, are gained by granting lands. 



He who grants lands lives 60,000 years in heaven; but he who 

 confiscates, or resumes, or allows others to do so, is doomed to hell for 

 a like period. 



The earth has been enjoyed by many kings, as Sdgara Raja, and 

 others, and he who rules it in his turn is the sole enjoyer of its fruits. 



He who resumes lands granted by himself or others, is to become a 

 dung fly and to live therein with his ancestors. 



The resumer of lands ean never be free from sins, though he grants 

 a thousand tanks, a crore of cows, and performs a hundred vajapeya 

 (a sacrifice.) 



Those who resume lands granted by others, will become black 

 serpents in the desert of the forest of the Vindhya mountain. No poison 

 is of itself utter poison ; but to deprive a Brahman of his property is 

 indeed poison, because the former can kill one alone, but the latter the 

 whole of a man's descendants. 



Sovereignty is unstable like the wind ; worldly pleasures are in the 

 first instance desirable. The life of man is as a dew-drop on the 

 grape, but, alas ! virtue is the only friend who accompanies him into 

 the next world. 



But what generous man will resume the grants made by Rajas, who 

 have gone before him, and whose gifts are like wreaths of flowers 

 spreading the fragrance of a good name and of a reputation for wealth 

 and virtue ? 



Lineage of Jayachandra. 



Yashovigraha. 



Mahichandra. 



Chandra Deva. 



Madanapala. 



Gobindachandra. 



Vijayachandra. 



Jayachandra, 



the donor. 



