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" In this copper sasanam are written 300 (perhaps bigas.) 

 " Therefore you must allow him to enjoy the same ; as also shall the 

 future rajas maintain it, with consideration that deprivation will doom them 

 to hell, and maintaining- will do glory to their virtue. 

 Some religious Slokas are written on this subject. 



" When any body gives land, his ancestors praise and boast themselves, 

 saying that a land-giver is born in our race, and he will be the deliverer 

 of us. He that presents lands and he that receives it, both of them are 

 worthy of going to heaven. 



Again: "this earth though enjoyed by several kings as Sugar raja, &c. 

 &c yet whenever any one possess it he is the sole enjoyer of its produce. 

 "He that deprives the land given by him or by any other person will 

 rot in ordure, being born insects in it with his forefathers. 



" He who presents land lives 60,000 years in heaven, but he who abuses 

 or disregards it is doomed to hell for the same period. 



" The effects of giving other things are to be enjoyed for one life*. 

 " Men, considering human life and prosperity as fickle as the water on 

 the leaf of the lily, and understanding what is already said, should not 

 destroy the fame of others. 



" This sasanam of the (prince) whose feet are kissed by a hundred 

 ministers : (signed on his part by) 



" His Majesty's almoners the high in authority, Sriman Madyasa 

 Karanani; Srimahd Madanaka Karanani; Srimat Karanani. 



" In the year (of reign) 3 ; the month Jyaistha on the day — "(the rest 

 obliterated. 



4. Inscriptions on Jain images from Central India. 

 In the course of the year 1836, a number (nine or ten) of Jain 

 images of marble were exhumated at Ajmir, from what is now a Musal- 

 man burial-ground, and in the immediate neighbourhood of an old Jain 

 temple beyond the Durgdh of the Khawaja Sahib on the ascent to 

 Tdrdgarh. Lieut. E. Madden, in obligingly communicating the 

 above intelligence, furnished me with a copy of the line of writing in- 

 scribed on the base of three of the images, in hopes it might afford some 

 historical aid, however limited, to our store of dates and names. One of 

 these inscriptions I have inserted at the foot of Plate II. Omitting the draw- 

 ing of the naked Jain saint kindly made by Lieut. Oldfield, because it 

 differs in nothing from the ordinary images of the Digambari class, so fre- 

 quently represented ;they are seated cross-legged with their hands joined ; 

 their ears are long and split, and their hair in the small round knobs or 

 curls which have led many to give these images an African origin. 



* In this half sloka, a few words are wanting to complete the verse, the 

 meaning of which should be " but the effects of presenting land are enjoyable 

 for endless lives." 



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