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Sagara and others. The reward of religious merit attaching to grants 

 of land is participated by all maintaining those grants inviolate. 



2. He, who receives a grant of land and he who gives the same, 

 are alike meritorious and are certainly inheritors of the kingdom 

 of heaven. 



3. O, Indra ! A gift of land is held to be complete in all its parts, 

 when accompanied by a conch shell, a seat of honor, a chhatra, a good 

 horse and a good carriage. They are the signs of a perfect gift which 

 is enjoyed when accompanied by these. 



4. The fool, who yielding to the instigations of his evil passions, 

 resumes a grant of land or causes a grant to be resumed, will be bound 

 in the chains of Varuna, and in a future birth will be born a bird 

 or quadruped. 



5. He who resumes land given either by himself or others will 

 become a vile worm creeping in ordure for sixty thousand years. 



6. He who seizes a single gold coin, or a single cow or even a 

 finger's breadth of land, goes assuredly to hell there to abide so long as 

 this creation shall last. 



7. Gifts of cows, of land and of knowledge are called grand gifts ; 

 these purify to the seventh generation, by the milk, fruit, and informa- 

 tion they impart. 



8. What man of virtue can be found so base as to resume the 

 grants of former rajas, who acquired thereby as well religious merit, 

 as their worldly desires and glory. Such resumption is as the return- 

 ing to a vomit, or the claiming of what has been once offered to a 

 deity. 



9. Ramachandra thus again and again calls upon all future rajas, 

 " Bear steadfastly in mind, that the merit of maintaining, is equal to 

 that of making grants, that it will prove your eternal salvation ;" that 

 grants should therefore be, from generation to generation and at all 

 times preserved inviolate. 



10. To all princes whether descended from me or from other 

 kings, who free from all sin, maintain the grants of land made by me, 

 inviolate, I humbly bow my head, and kiss their lotus feet. 



Such are the sacred texts of Rishis rehearsed in order. 



Let all men reflecting that prosperity and life are as uncertain as the 

 trembling waterdrop on the lotus leaf, bear the?e examples and warn- 

 ings in mind and forbear to impair the good names of others. 



Given under the signature of the Prince Sri Habischandra 

 Deva (son of the great Sri Lacshmivarma Deva), who befriends 

 the Paramar (Ponwar) tribe as the sun befriends the lotus. 



