243 Of two Edicts bestowing Land. [No. 3. 



sellors, chaplains royal, warders of the gate, generalissimos, trea- 

 surers, justiciaries, physicians, diviners, custodians of the female 

 apartment, envoys, and persons holding the proprietorship of ele- 

 phants, of horses, of towns, of mines, and of herds of black cattle. 

 Be it known to you accordingly as is here written : that the 

 aforesaid village, with its water and soil, with its iron-mines and 

 salt-pits, with its fisheries,* with its holes and saline wastes, with 

 and including its groves of madhukas and mango trees, its orchards, 

 timber, grass, and pasturage, with everything above and below, its 

 four abuttals being adjusted, as far as its borders : on the sixth day 

 of the dark semi-lunation, in the month of Mdgha, in the year 

 eleven hundred and eighty-two ; or, expressed in numerals, on Fri- 

 day, the 6th day of the moon's wane, in Mdgha, Sarnvat 1182 : was 

 by us granted,f by patent, for as long as the moon and sun shall 

 endure : — having bathed in the Ganges, at S'ris'a-pratishthana ;J 

 having satisfied, in due form, the divinities of the Vedas, the saints, 

 deceased mortals, malignant spirits, and our own group of progeni- 

 tors ; paying homage to the sun, of brilliance potent in penetrating 

 the regions of darkness ; worshipping him on whose brow is a seg- 

 ment of the moon ; adoring Vasudeva, the protector of the triple 

 world ; offering to fire an oblation of abundant rice, milk, and 

 sugar ; and in order to promote the desert and renown of our mo- 

 ther, of our father, and of ourself ; taking water in our palm puri- 

 fied by bending it into the shape of a cow's ear, and by hus'a grass : 

 — to the fortunate Chhichha S'arman and Vachhata S'arman, sons 



* This appurtenance of landed property is an addition to the particularities of 

 the former grant. Its recital may be taken to mark an advance in the refinements 

 of conveyancing. 



f Several unquestionable blunders of the lithographer, or of the engraver, I have 

 silently corrected, in transcribing the original: for instance, in the Sanskrit of this 

 word, u^tcJT, for $^%T J and above ' ^T*P for ^XW>, ^TT for ^T^T, ^f*T- 

 3 IRJ for -^rfaTCST and a general misuse of the sibilants, Tliis inscription, like the 

 former, also has ^fW *T, «rC3f, & c - » which have already been the subject of 

 remark. 



+ S'ris'a, or 'the lord of S'ri,' is Vishnu. If S'ris'a-pratishthana be not the 

 name of a town, it may, perhaps, indicate the celebrated temple of Bindu-madhava 

 at Benares, on the bank of the Ganges. 



