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Eleventh Tablet. 



Thus spake Piyadasi the king beloved of the gods ! — There is no 

 such charity as the charity which springeth from virtue ! — (which is) 

 the intimate knowledge of virtue, the inheritance of virtue, the close union 

 with virtue ! And in these maxims is it manifested : " kindness towards 

 servants and hirelings ; towards mother and father dutiful service is 

 proper ; — towards a friend's offspring, to kindred in general, to brah- 

 mans and sramans, almsgiving is proper : avoiding the destruction of 

 animal life is proper." And this (saying) should be equally repeated by 

 father and by son, by brother and friend's son, ( ?) by the hireling and 

 even so by neighbours in general ! 



This is excellent — and this is what ought to be done ! 



And whoso doeth thus, is blessed of the inhabitants of this world : 

 and in the next world endless moral merit resulteth from such religious 

 charity. 



Twelfth Tablet. 

 The heaven-beloved king Piyadasi propitiateth all unbelievers, 

 both of the ascetic and of the domestic classes ; by charitable offerings 

 and by every species of puja doth he (strive to) propitiate them. Not 

 that the beloved of the gods deemeth offerings or prayers to be of the 

 same (value) with true glory. The promotion of his own salvation 



promoteth in many ways, the salvation of all unbelievers of which 



indeed this is the root, and the whole substance. 



Notes to the Eleventh Tablet. 



Sanstavo, TQT^'Sf: iutiraate knowledge — or TJ^sfT^T eulogy ? 



Samvibhdgo, ^fsf^JJl: inheritance, or the due distribution of religious duties ? 



Sambandho, j$T^7q; property, union, friendship. 



Vatavyam, perhaps "^f^cT^i *° ^ e performed, from ^f rather than ^3^55 to be 

 Spoken. 



Natikdnam if the d were long it might be ^Jf<23vmTT P an dits. 



Bhataka, ajTf^f a hired labourer. 



Sampatipati, the original has the m written with a stroke beneath apparently to 

 serve as the vyanjan of the Sanskrit :— it must have been written by mistake in lieu 

 of the anusvara. 



Notes to the Twelfth Tablet. 



Pujayati, vr^'qi^ propitiates by puja. 



Pdsand&ni pavajitdni — gharistdni, Sff^f5iffT«T ascetics those who have entirely con- 

 quered their passions — J^^lsTlcf 9 r ihist or laity, possessing homes and families. It 

 will be remarked that the accusative case plural is mada to terminate in dni instead 

 of an. 



