1839.] Notice of a Grant engraved on Copper. 483 



It may be observed that in this and other grants the grantor gives 

 the property in the soil, and says nothing of holding tax-free. May it 

 be inferred from this, that the Raja was under the old Hindu system con- 

 sidered as the owner of all the lands in his dominions, and that where he 

 granted in proprietory right, the tax-free tenure or exemption from rent 

 to the state, was implied as a matter of course ? 



TRANSLATION. 

 Om glory to Brahma. 



1. That deity (1) whose navel is a lotus prevails; and so does the 

 lotus his navel. Excellent too is the lotus-born god ( 2 ) produced 

 therefrom ; excellent is his offspring, that Atri ; and after them excels 

 that luminary beloved by the ocean, who received his birth in the cavity 

 of his eye. 



2. That luminary which glides in the serial expanse, like as it were 

 a swan on a lake, begat as his son, Bodhana(3), the first prince, a son- 

 in-law domiciled in the mansion of the lotus-loved luminary (4). 



3. The son of the god, who rules the waters, obtained as his son 

 Pururavas, — him whose concubine was Urvasi ( 5 )> endowed with nu- 

 merous incomparable qualities and whose wife was Urvara'. 



4. In that race was born B ha rat a ( 6 ). He was enamoured of the 

 earth ( Viswambhara ) , lovely by, her ornament, the ocean, encircling 

 her as a girdle, and whose pure glory rivetted as it were on the pillars 

 of more than a hundred Aswamedhas is proclaimed by the Yamuna. 



5. In his race, excellent is that Kartta-Viryya, that warrior wielding 

 without effort every weapon, as if by second nature. Then he supplied 

 the name of Raja 00 to the Hare-spotted luminary, the progenitor of 

 his race. 



6. That monarch, the lord of kings (firm as the snowy mount), be- 

 gat the Kulachuri race, distinguished by sovereigns spotless in their con- 

 duct like pure pearls. 



7. In his line was the king Yuva-Raja-Deva, foremost of the 

 virtuous, who had purified his capital like the city of Purandara ( 8 ) » — a 

 youthful lion in quelling of kings the pride, which resembles some vast 

 elephant blind with rage. 



(1) Brahma. (2) Vishnu. (3) Alias Budha, the regent of Merury, or the 



Planet itself, (4) The Sun. Mercury is said to be domiciled in the mansion of his 

 father-in-law the Sun, from his approach to that luminary in parts of its orbit. 

 (5) The celestial courtezan. (6) Bharat is the king, by whose name India is 



yet designated, Bharata Varsha. (7) Shining. (8) Indra. 



