740 Translation of a Copper Plate grant [Aug. 



of Paushavadya of the Samvat year 1235 of Vikramaditya, he 

 after bathing in the sacred waters of the holy Narmadd, near the 

 temple of the four-faced Markandesvar, and after duly robing 

 himself in white garments and making oblations of water to the gods 

 and to his progenitors, and after offering due worship to the lord and 

 ruler of all animate and inanimate objects, and after sacrificing to the 

 sacred fire with the holy wood, kusha grass, sesamum seed, rice, &c. 

 as prescribed, walking thrice round the sacred cow, and performing 

 other purificatory ceremonies, has given away in gift 1000 cows. 

 Seeing moreover that there is no stability in the affairs of this world, 

 that they are more inconsistent than the water-drop trembling on the 

 lotus leaf, and that youth and wealth are of uncertain duration, as it 

 has been well observed, " the kingdoms of this world are as inconstant 

 as the clouds agitated by the changeful winds, and all sensual pleasures 

 last but for the instant of enjoyment ; the life of man is like the rain 

 drop depending from the point of a tremulous blade of grass ; piety 

 alone will befriend a man in the life to come," — I, duly reflecting on 

 these matters, have, with a view of adding to the merits and glory of 

 my mother and father and of myself, given to the learned brahman 

 Dasaratha, son of the learned Sindhu of the Katydyana gotra 

 and of three Pravars, two shares of the registered rents of the 

 village of Sawdrd, To the learned brahman Malvinu the son of the 

 learned Delu of the Pardsara gotra, and of three Pravars. I 

 moreover gave on the full moon of Vaisakha of the above mentioned 

 Samvat year 1235, the remaining share of the village, adding 

 to the shares of both customary dues from the bazar below the 

 Fort of Gunapura ; the village of Suwdrd thus divided into three 

 shares and calculated at 40 manis of seed grain as measured by the 

 kura of the Nilagiri Mandala, together with all the trees grow- 

 ing therein ^and a right to all trove treasure that may be found, with 

 its clear defined boundary, and with all the Baolees> wells, and tanks 

 in the same, has by this deed been duly granted with ablutions of water. 

 Therefore let all the inhabitants of this village, the patel and others as 

 also the cultivators, submitting themselves to the orders of these two 

 pandits, pay unto them the whole produce of every due, rent, revenue 

 and money payment. 



Let this my religious grant be duly observed and maintained by all 

 my descendants and also by all other future princes who may inherit 

 the land, reflecting that the merits of the gift will thus be duly shared 

 in by them whilst following this course. 



1. The earth has been enjoyed in succession by many kings, by raja 



